oh, but we won’t charge you until your 30 days is up, you can just cancel before then!*
*please forget please forget please let us charge you when you least expect it ohgodplease forget about us you fucking stupid forgetful dope
– how I interpret “free trials” that work like this. You can terminate my service when my trial is up, you do not need my credit card information until I’ve actually agreed to purchase the service. There is literally no practical reason they can’t just do that instead – except, of course, that it makes them more money off of forgotten trial subscriptions.
Also, you can just use a fake name, address and email when signing up so if they verify you as a first-time user on that you can easily bypass and have free trial forever. They can better use the CC details for this verification. And it’s trivial to reject those single-use virtual CCs if they want to. It does actually serve a functional purpose in this case to request CC info.
Of course they definitely still hope you forget too so they can charge you.
– how I interpret “free trials” that work like this. You can terminate my service when my trial is up, you do not need my credit card information until I’ve actually agreed to purchase the service. There is literally no practical reason they can’t just do that instead – except, of course, that it makes them more money off of forgotten trial subscriptions.
Also, you can just use a fake name, address and email when signing up so if they verify you as a first-time user on that you can easily bypass and have free trial forever. They can better use the CC details for this verification. And it’s trivial to reject those single-use virtual CCs if they want to. It does actually serve a functional purpose in this case to request CC info.
Of course they definitely still hope you forget too so they can charge you.
So you’re saying they’re gonna leak your data too
I’m not sure where you read me writing or suggesting that in my comment…could you point it out to me?