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Cake day: January 13th, 2024

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  • Thanks for the context but

    I feel like price for the one time purchase is set deliberately high because they want people to actually pay for the subscription instead. If their goal really was to make their products more accessible, just allow people to pay in installments and take some recurring interest fees for the financing.

    And, in any case, the product should work no matter whether I’m late with the monthly fee or not. That’s just bullshit.


  • hexortor@lemmy.ziptoMemes@lemmy.mlThe comments speak for themselves
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    11 months ago
    1. modern websites are a pain to navigate with popups, paywall, ads, heavy tracking that slows down navigation, autoplaying video ads etc

    2. modern journalism = let’s just report whatever the person or company says without fact checking, contextualizing or taking a stance. I believe this is done because it takes less effort and because it makes sure that the news org doesn’t anger any of the persons/organizations it has tides with (for ads or direct funding)

    The comments solve both problems, as lemmy is ad- and tracking-free and the people in the comments are mostly real people usually without any vested interests in the things they’re discussing.

    So OBVIOUSLY I only read the comments. I’ll get the content of the article indirectly as it’s being discussed.