I set up recurring payments through my bank’s website. I never give a company my banking information if I don’t absolutely have to. I simply don’t trust them not to screw me, or fix their “errors” in a timely fashion. They’ll happily make a “mistake” and overcharge you by hundreds or thousands of dollars with zero verification, but try to get a 22 cent refund and they’ll fight you tooth and nail. After keeping you on the phone for an hour, of course.
No way. BILL ME, and I’ll look over it myself, thanks.
I hate it too, but at least it’s fair. The CC companies have squeezed everyone by raising their percentage fees ridiculously high to 3-5% for doing nothing but moving a number from one database row to another, and then bribing us the consumers by giving us 1% of our own money as cashback. The phone companies have calculated how much it costs them in CC fees to support CC payments, and they are giving us the choice to pay them that or switch to a cheaper payment method. Granted, $40 is probably still way more than their actual fees, but if you are choosing to pay that anyway, then your preferred payment method is worth at least that much to you. I am paying $10/month to my service provider for the “privilege” to not use autopay.
Funny thing is that privacy.com is funded by squatting on the CC interchange fees, while CC fees is precisely what T-mobile is trying to avoid by switching to ACH.
Xfinity is doing the same shit. I keep getting emails “reminding” me. I’m not sure what difference it makes to either company. I’m not so much mad as annoyed.
Credit cards charge the companies fees. Your $100 bill payment might only be $98 once it gets to them, because Visa/MC/etc took $2. But most importantly, it strips away any protection you have against incorrect charges. With a credit card on file, you can dispute charges, even demand a charge-back. But with a debit card or bank transfer? Your money is gone, too bad for you.
You can absolutely dispute incorrect debit card transactions and receive your money back. Here’s instructions for Chase Bank for example: www.chase.com/digital/…/dispute-transaction It’s just that the time limits for reporting are tighter - 60 days for Chase debit IIRC.
I'm kind of torn on this one. His way of dealing with the question was bad for sure but I don't like sharing my personal tastes at first either because I'm insecure…
Edge is an OK browser that’s rapidly being bogged down with bloatware, just like Chrome which it sought to destroy. I’ll keep using Firefox and hope the same thing never happens to it. At least they finally killed off IE.
I use it on my gaming machine because it’s there and it isn’t chrome. But it keeps harassing me with browser shopping notifications, recommendations that are always about AI, and you have to visit a pasted-in flags page to disable them. It’s shit
Not that I like the current Chrome, but with all this forcing down your throat Edge from Microsoft, I hate Edge 10 times more. I guess Firefox is the only good alternative even if its is not Chromium
I quite like Chromium. Maybe is my tinted glass when I just switched from Firefox/Explorer. The fact that your browser would pop up almost instantly instead of taking those 2-3 seconds to start was quite revolutionary (Firefox of course caught up quite soon on that regard, Microsoft had to adopt Chromium to do the same).
But yeah, the current bloatware and resouce gourging are quite bad when looking at it impartially.
Not really, at least not at this festival; people were awesomely considerate of us shortfolk. If you look around you can see she was the only person up like that. BUT I wasn’t super upset & could still see the screens. That’s why I figured it was a good one for mildly infuriating.
While this may look alarming, it’s nothing to be concerned about. Sometimes “privacy” focused browsers and apps can be a little overzealous.
We are taking our mandate to be a responsible member of the fediverse seriously, and part of that is building trust. We have no intention of abusing your data, nor the trust you place in us.
Country, last name, and state. As well as my location directly basically. Nothing to be concerned about. Sure. Not at all. I’m not being sarcastic guys. We can totally trust a stranger who asks us where we live and know nothing about them.
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