Comment on Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare"

• orphiebaby@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How is that fucking legal?

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• money_loo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah and it’s very useful, looks like this place is just as bad with the kids as that other place.

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  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The fuck are you talking about?

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    • money_loo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The fact people here don’t even understand how credit cards work is a pretty big sign my guy….

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      • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The fact that you think it’s reasonable for literally anyone but you to give out your credit card details is a pretty big sign my guy

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I want to keep a subscription going I’ll give them the new CC information myself. Like a responsible adult. Hard disagree on the usefullness.

    Not sure what point you’re even trying to make about children and Reddit.

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    • money_loo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s pretty well known Reddits users are mostly kids.

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Are we really pretending that unsourced imgur screen shots are valid references?

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • money_loo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      There are lots of situations you wouldn’t want your service to be cancelled, so it’s a useful feature is all we’re saying. People acting like it’s malice are hilarious and/or children.

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      • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        And in those situations I will contact the vendor to give them updated information. I don’t find it useful when a free trial I haven’t thought about for three years suddenly changes me several hundred dollars.

        Nobody ever said malice, but it’s a service that flies in the face of the whole concept of an expiration date.

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• brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is more based on authorization vs CC details. It’s much safer for a company than holding onto credit card numbers. Creating a subscriptions generates an authorization code which is good for the account, not just a specific card number. Revoking that authorization is a separate call to the bank rather than just having a credit card replaced.

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  • AbidanYre@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That authorization shouldn’t be indefinite either though. After three years of no activity and a card expiring OnStar was still able to make a charge to renew that trial subscription.

    And looking around the web, there are a few stories from that 2016 time frame to indicate that it was a new-ish, or at least not well known, practice at the time.

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