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This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.

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Being forced to accept all cookies unless I pay (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months 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.