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Holy cow, that’s evil. https://help.audible.com/s/article/do-i-keep-my-credits-if-i... Do I keep my credits if I cancel my Audible Premium Plus membership? No. If you end your Audible Premium Plus membership, your credits will be lost with your other membership benefits.
I wind up pausing my subscription when I get too many credits. It’s not a full cancellation, but I don’t have to pay.
Dark patterns all over.
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Part of the advantage of the recurring subscription model is having predictable revenue every month due to it being recurring. And many businesses count on that "gym membership" effect, where people who don't use a service also don't take the time to cancel it for a while.
that's me and my audible subscription. i should cancel it, but before that i have to use the credits.
I've been using Mullvad ever since PIA was bought out. Never had an issue with them (other than when I forget to top up and my VPN connection dies :) ) with speed or reliability. I've always used the top up functionality rather than a subscription, but it's great to see how committed they are to reducing the attack surface for the users that need the most privacy.
Mulvad is awesome and super fast. I reliably get in excess of 300mbps while torrenting.
Great benefit. I also recommend to find a reputable masked card service provider if you plan to use a credit/debit card. Autopay is just another way for banks and providers to circumvent overdraft protection legislation and hopefully new legislation will remove any "perks" that providers offer for autopay services.
Is there such a thing as a truly private “masked card service?” I’m genuinely curious because I use virtual cards supplied by my online bank, but I’m sure they retain records for each virtual card I use. Are there services that do not record this information?
No - there’s no way to support all the anti fraud mechanisms of the major credit card networks without a thorough paper trail. Masked card services help prevent unwanted charges and inconvenience for the customer - they may give a fleeting layer of privacy between the consumer and the merchant but nothing more than that.
Also it seems all I need to do as an "attacker" is subpoena (or whatever the Swedish equivalent is) Mullvad while your payment record is on file and I get the info I want. If Mullvad really wanted to go hardcore why not only sell little top up cards cash-only at kiosks?
Now, choosing where you want your traffic to geographically egress onto the public network does have marginal utility and it's a perfectly sane feature for VPN providers to market and consumers to pay for--VPNs aren't useless. It's just not privacy.
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that's me and my audible subscription. i should cancel it, but before that i have to use the credits.
Holy cow, that’s evil. https://help.audible.com/s/article/do-i-keep-my-credits-if-i... Do I keep my credits if I cancel my Audible Premium Plus membership? No. If you end your Audible Premium Plus membership, your credits will be lost with your other membership benefits.
This and other privacy-related issues (see my comment history) is why I won’t consciously use Amazon again.
Wow. Hadn't heard of Mullvad before reading this, figured I'd give it a try. That is hands down the BEST onboarding experience for an app (let alone a VPN) I've had in I don't know how long. Took me maybe 2 minutes to go from no account to a working VPN connection. I love that everything is anonymous (down to the account credentials just being a randomly generated token).
Just the only vpn with any integrity left remaining, no biggie.
But here they make privacy more important than pleasing the investors. Kudos. Glad I'm a customer.
Wow. Hadn't heard of Mullvad before reading this, figured I'd give it a try. That is hands down the BEST onboarding experience for an app (let alone a VPN) I've had in I don't know how long. Took me maybe 2 minutes to go from no account to a working VPN connection. I love that everything is anonymous (down to the account credentials just being a randomly generated token).
Mullvard is behind the mozilla vpn. They're crazy good about privacy. You can mail them cash with account info and they'll set you up.