There’s an entire ecosystem of Facebook-tier repetitive browser games that are designed to keep you tapping for hours as you chase tokens you can exchange for AE coins or coupons. Actually, the main point is to get you to make impulse buys from within the games themselves

The games all use different tokens and naturally run on slowly regenerating energy. If you run out energy, you can get more by exchanging some of your coins or tokens, browsing products on AE, opening another game, or by ordering something for a large energy boost

Simply buying stuff normally on AliExpress doesn’t give you game tokens or energy, you need to directly buy an item from a listing the game shows you for it to count

Every single game also has a battlepass type deal with dailies and weeklies to complete for even more tokens

All of this started when Halo 2 introduced XP into online shooters sadness-abysmal

  • trinicorn [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I just received an aliexpress package the other day and paid no tariff. Idk when it will finally kick in but it isn’t clear to me to what extent it has yet

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        That’s what I’ve been hearing but nobody seems sure which is bizarre/hilarious. Curious if it’ll actually be rolled out and effective. I feel like a lot of little packages can just get misclassified as electronics or something exempted and slip through