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> And exploit that difference whenever you can.

no thank you. I'd rather live in a world where we try to make it better not race to the bottom

it seems kinda unfair to look at cases where companies pull shady shit around preventing cancellation, hiding the options, making people spend an hour on the phone then blame the consumer for a "race to the bottom" when they use a workaround to make cancelling the flip of a switch (like it should be).

No one is saying Privacy.com like methods are, for lack of a better word, wrong. Go ahead and fight unethical behavior with your own unethical behavior. The concern is that, despite unethical behavior being legal, you being unethical back doesn’t void the contract.

Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.

Yes, but it's better to be good and be burned - knowing full well it could've happened - than to be evil to others.

Don't be naive about it, you have to be brave. There's always a chance someone betrays you, but it's a risk worth taking.

There is absolutely no way cancelling a credit card is evil or immoral. All they had to do was make it easy for us to cancel the subscriptions but no, gotta retain the consumer at all costs even if it means making their life hell until they'd rather keep paying than deal with the cancellation process.

They're the ones exploiting our "contractual obligation" to keep paying them despite no longer wanting the service. They deserve absolutely everything that happens as a result of their abuse. We won't apologize.

Oh, I entirely agree with you. I was referring to what the parent said, implying that you should be bad because someone else will beat you to it.

Canceling a credit card or charging back a charge for a prepaid service you aren't using is not immoral or evil by any stretch of any real moral code.

Write us when you land in that fantasy.

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