Well, the time for friendly reminders is over. People have been warned over and over again and it's not helping. There is a ton of information easily accessible by a simple search command, and even that isn't helping. If after all the years nothing has changed (and this whole cloud mining ponzi industry started back in 2013), it's safe to say that nothing will ever change.
In other words, it's no longer cloud mining services ripping people off, but people are ripping themselves off.
Exactly. I think that ultimately, it's up to people themselves to figure out that cloud mining is not going to turn them even just a return on their investment, let alone any profits, and most of them could be classified as scams that is probably very questionable when it comes to actual mining.
And what is a change.org petition going to do? Pretty much nothing. It's not legally binding. People who are misled by youtube channels into investing aren't going to even see these petitions. Hashflare has gone scam ages ago when contracts were tampered with without consent from the users, yet, people still continue to invest for some reason.
Besides, it's just one company out of the sea of hundreds of the same structured schemes flying around at the moment. You really think that getting HF to pay out will mean that all of the other cloud mining scams will suddenly cease to exist, and give an ROI on everyone's investments? Hell no.