• @[email protected]
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    211 year ago

    Go ad-free for free! Just give us your credit card number so we can charge it when you’re not looking!

    Seriously, why isn’t this illegal yet? Why has this fallen to the private sector? WHY DO I HAVE TO GIVE A COMPANY MONEY IN ORDER TO STOP GIVING MONEY TO COMPANIES WHOSE SERVICES I’M NOT USING?

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      That’s why with modern payment systems they give you a code and you send them the money. Credit cards made more sense before cell phones.

  • @[email protected]
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    151 year ago

    Just had my yearly car maintenance at the local VW shop. They’ve started passing on the credit card processing fees to the customer. It’s only like 3 or 4%, but it made me use a debit card instead of a CC. Guess that’s where we’re at now.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      On the one hand I completely understand and agree with businesses that do this. CC fees take a huge chunk out of your bottom line.

      On the other hand, I’m less likely to go there a second time unless I really, really, really like your business.

      For my barber, I will gladly pay in cash.

      There’s a convenience store that charged me the 3% at check out. I left everything on the counter and went the extra mile or so and went to a normal grocery store.

    • walden
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      I think a law passed allowing businesses to do this now. Before they were bound by their agreements with pay processors. Typically they allowed a discount for cash, but not an extra charge for credit. The whole “$10 minimum for credit cards” wasn’t supposed to happen, either.

      Now the payment processors aren’t allowed to enforce that type of rule.

      Source: I read a similar comment elsewhere on the internet a couple of years ago, and that’s what I remember from it.

  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    Ita worth it for me, I watch tons of twitch and ads are annoying. I don’t have to mess with anything or deal with twitch updating stuff breaking extensions etc.

    • Corhen
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      31 year ago

      yea, but at the top of the email it says “go ad-free for free”

  • Fugtig Fisk
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    111 year ago

    The really interesting question is, are they removing revenue from channels? Are you really supporting them by going adfree? Do the users who pay this still count as viewers of ads even though they don’t see them?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 year ago

      Yes, they still count as viewers of ads and the streamer gets a small cut of the twitch turbo subscription money.

    • @[email protected]
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      81 year ago

      Nitro users count towards ad views and show as regular users… basically to count as a viewer you have to have the video running, doesn’t matter if the player or tab is muted.

      • Fugtig Fisk
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        11 year ago

        That’s interesting! So the more of those subscriptions twitch sells, the more they devaluate themselves towards the advertisers?

          • Fugtig Fisk
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            11 year ago

            For sure! Untill no more advertisers feel its worth to advertise.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              Right, but that would be fine because they’d have so much money from subscriptions at that point…

    • Fugtig Fisk
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      41 year ago

      This is normal though. I get 25% vat added whenever i shop online outside my country. Other countries have less or more vat. They can’t tell for sure, before you checkout because you may be ordering while not at your home country.

  • invalid_display_name
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    51 year ago

    Yeah, honestly this logic doesn’t make sense

    “If you pay for this subscription, we will stop showing you ads for free!” like- this is part of the subscription, how is it free lmao

  • Rhynoplaz
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    301 year ago

    They could be charging $50 for ad free ON TOP of the $11.99. That’s a savings of $50! You should consider yourself lucky! You can’t afford NOT to take a deal THIS good!

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      It’s sad that this has basically become a standard. Subscribe to a service, but then you have to pay extra on top of that to not see ads. Are we now supposed to be grateful that products and services we already pay for aren’t trying to bleed us for every cent they can get?