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Just look at this assault on the senses stalin-stressed

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[–] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 20 points 4 months ago

Some of you don't have an Asian uncle using facebook messenger to send you links to every sweepstakes on earth and it shows

[–] Tempo@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

At least it's optional and not massively intrusive to the shopping experience

Temu is like 100x worse, actually painful to use their app

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 13 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Isn't China comparably tough on this sort of thing?

So do they just let it slide for their own companies or does the rest of the world get the gambling-addiction-app and the chinese don't? That screenshot is very much in english

[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

AliExpress is the international version so yea they don't care that much about the rest of world lol

[–] ashinadash@hexbear.net 11 points 4 months ago

or does the rest of the world get the gambling-addiction-app and the chinese don't?

New vector for psychological warfare!

[–] coolusername@lemmy.ml 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

You win prizes like save two dollars on orders. They're probably just copying what Xiaomi does anyway. Same stuff. Shopee does it too.

AliExpress is for Chinese to sell abroad, not for locals. These games are actually targeted at cheapskates that want to save every dollar possible. They're the equivalent of coupons but you have to work for them.

[–] Amir@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Tiktok vs Douyin is the same stuff. International gets the far more addictive app

[–] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 5 points 4 months ago

Not sure I'm gonna call it based but it is fucking hilarious

[–] peppersky@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

this is certainly something designed by people who are not capitalist ghouls

[–] Barx@hexbear.net 12 points 4 months ago

It's ridiculous but also it gets me like $2 off of $10 of items where I already got a $1 coupon for an item being late and then $4 off with their other promotional bullshit. So basically I spent $3 on items that would've cost me $25 on Amazon which is not too bad. Plus it reminds me to watch Canada and the US get beaten in soccer lmao.

As a concept it is pretty fucked, though. I think it probably creates shopping addictions for a lot of people.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought aliexpress was a shopping website and not... whatever this is.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 16 points 4 months ago

It's a shopping website that wants you to spend as much time as possible every day playing Facebook browser games to earn fake currencies that get you 2% off some items

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago

The website on desktop doesn't really have this I think, this is app only

[–] Gorillatactics@hexbear.net 9 points 4 months ago

I thought aliexpress was a store? Where are the products?

[–] Red_sun_in_the_sky@hexbear.net 8 points 4 months ago

I've seen this sort of stuff. But its usually through google play points and rewards. To make points and whatever you play suggested crapware game. But also weird apps for making small amounts of money also do this.

[–] HexBeara@hexbear.net 3 points 4 months ago