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You can create credit card numbers and assign a spending limit to them. Some service can detect that and will refuse the card, but many don't.
Once you're done signing-up, simply delete your generated credit card.
I immediately went looking for the cancel link. It’s not as terrible as some. (You don’t have to call them or anything.) But it’s still pretty bad. I didn’t need to confirm even once that I wanted the Prime subscription, but had to confirm 3 or 4 times I want to cancel with a bunch of confusing options to only pause my subscription, etc. I did eventually cancel, but I don’t see how this can be legal. If you accidentally press the wrong thing, you’re suddenly obligated to pay for something you didn’t want, but if you try to cancel, it’s a bunch, “Are you sure? Are you really sure?” nonsense. I don’t think I was charged as it was still during the 30 day “free” trial.
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Inform yourself on what happen to Yazidis recently and you will not do this sort of humor anymore.
What sort of humor? I'm showing the ridiculousness of the claim. The Nazis can be evil as well as ISIS.
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If you don't have a card that allows that, you can also buy a prepaid card, though I believe such cards may have distinctive numbers and it's possible a vendor may disallow.
I use https://privacy.com/ for this. One of the best discoveries I found on hn a few years ago
I switched to it in fact after getting burned with the Adobe cancellation thing. Never looked back.
I also tried darktable. But Capture One does magic. The photos turn out always much better than what I could do with any ohter product.
This happened to my wife and I. We both have advanced degrees and write software for a living. The fact that it had these cancellation terms was not at all obvious to either of us, and only realized it when she went to cancel. It’s one of the few trials that I absolutely remember and I’m so glad it was just the photography bundle and not the whole creative suite. It’s absolutely designed to trick you and it works. Fu…
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If you don't have a card that allows that, you can also buy a prepaid card, though I believe such cards may have distinctive numbers and it's possible a vendor may disallow.
I use https://privacy.com/ for this. One of the best discoveries I found on hn a few years ago
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Or you can just block the recurring payments and wait for them to come at you? Anyway a "free" trial that asks for your cc number is obviously not free. Better to stay away of those to be on the safe side.
> Anyway a "free" trial that asks for your cc number is obviously not free. There is a legitimate reason to do that: to keep people from making a bunch of accounts and getting free trials with them forever.
But really, this is why I avoid subscription software as much as possible. I will pay for streaming media (because I'm paying for the media not the software). If I buy software, I expect a once off payment to be able to use it forever (I'm ok with having to pay for a new version sometime down the line as long as my old version continues to run). I do sometimes use SaaS web products, but I do try to avoid it when I can.
Since most things are subscription these days, I don't buy much software and tend to stick to open source stuff where I can.
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If you don't have a card that allows that, you can also buy a prepaid card, though I believe such cards may have distinctive numbers and it's possible a vendor may disallow.
I use https://privacy.com/ for this. One of the best discoveries I found on hn a few years ago