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Being forced to accept all cookies unless I pay (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/assholedesign@lemmy.world
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[–] 26 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Let us track you to view this article.

or....

Pay us with a trackable payment method to view this article.

Catch-22 Surveillance Economy

I'd rather they put a webasm crypto miner on the page and say "mine for 10s to view this article" or something

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  • [+] -11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Is it really so hard to buy a disposable visa or MasterCard? Can even pay bums to buy them for you.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    its friction, a really really high amount of friction.....

    Not to mention many of the subscription sites (like newspapers) WILL NOT ACCEPT a prepaid card, or a virtual card - they flat refuse them. It has to be a card they can auto-bill forever. Not everyone does this, but enough do that its really rather bothersome friction.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Seems strange to refuse payments but Im sure there is some accounting person who's figured it out.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The people they lose from not accepting pre-paid and virtual credit cards costs them less money then the people who forget they signed up for a auto-renewing subscription and pay for months/years without realizing it.

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