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Re: Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

#102

So where do I go to see my profile and data? I got a kick out of requesting my lexis nexis profiles - which eventually resulted in two very large packets of paper (several hundred pages) arriving in the mail.

If you want a real trip, I'd suggest getting your data from DT Client Services via CCPA request if you are in California. That was really shocking.

Re: Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

#103
post #58

Sometimes I wonder how certain deals show up as website advertisements and recommendations. Certain blog posts or forum posts appear magically in my search result knowing what I was planning for. Deals and YouTube recommendations also seemed coincidental. Now I know that my debit card has been also leaking my purchase patterns and location. I better add more hosts to my Raspberry Pi-Hole.

Your credit card mostly on gets merchant name and total purchase value, so the uses are fairly niche. It’s more likely merchants themselves indirectly selling your purchase data.

You can sometimes click the small blue triangle in the corner of an ad (called adchoices) to see how it was targeted.

Re: Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

#105
Pet peeve: Why do they use subdomains (marketingreportoptout.visa.com), thus making it a bit easier for the scammers to register similar domains?

marketingreportoptout-visa.com is still available for any scammer to register. It costs Visa (or anyone) less than $200 to register it for 10 years. Can't they at least register these very obvious domains?

How difficult is it to use URLs like this? visa.com/marketingoptout visa.com/links

Re: Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

#106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would easily pay 0.0005 per solve if it meant I don't have to deal with a captcha again when browsing.

I assume there is a business opportunity here.

"Break something and then sell the solution" is always a business opportunity.

Re: Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

#107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would easily pay 0.0005 per solve if it meant I don't have to deal with a captcha again when browsing.

I assume there is a business opportunity here.

The biggest issue here is solve latency. If I'm on a page with a captcha, I would definitely pay $0.0005 to not have to solve the captcha (hell, I'd pay $0.01), but I'm not sure I'd pay $0.0005 and wait 30 seconds.

Re: Visa Advertising Solutions (VAS) Opt Out

#110
Is it just opt out once forever or do you have to "opt out" each time they update and send you a new card holder agreement? Who has the discipline to read each packet Visa sends you every few months and re-opt out each and every time? Out of pure attrition, I'm guessing 99% of their customers will eventually be "opt-in".

Besides, considering that Visa, Mastercard, etc are all headed toward "data and AI" model, it's not going to matter ultimately. The entire business world is going towards collecting data and selling your data.

Isn't data the "new oil"?

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