I hate to sounds like I'm defending them... but that's like every startup.

Taxi Pendants? Never heard of her

- Uber/Lyft

Gambling laws? Pssht

- Polymarkets

Yes, a lot of startups are only successful because what they are doing suddenly isn't illegal anymore because it's being done with an app. Cory Doctorow has written about this in his book Enshittification