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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 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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.