{"id":4939,"date":"2025-06-27T10:03:35","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/ftc-approves-126-million-in-fortnite-refunds-over-dark-patterns\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T10:03:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T10:03:35","slug":"ftc-approves-126-million-in-fortnite-refunds-over-dark-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/ftc-approves-126-million-in-fortnite-refunds-over-dark-patterns\/","title":{"rendered":"FTC approves $126 million in Fortnite refunds over \u2018dark patterns\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    FTC approves $126 million in Fortnite refunds over \u2018dark patterns\u2019<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved $126,000,000 in refunds to be sent to 969,173 Fortnite players as part of a settlement over allegations that Epic Games tricked users into making\u00a0unwanted purchases. [&#8230;]<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Bill Toulas<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/legal\/ftc-approves-126-million-in-fortnite-refunds-over-dark-patterns\/\">Go to bleepingcomputer<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTC approves $126 million in Fortnite refunds over \u2018dark patterns\u2019 The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved $126,000,000 in refunds to be sent to 969,173 Fortnite players as part of a settlement over allegations that Epic Games tricked users into making\u00a0unwanted purchases. [&#8230;] Bill Toulas Go to bleepingcomputer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,532,134],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-4939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bleepingcomputer","category-gaming","category-legal","tag-bleepingcomputer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serisec.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}