is something like Privacy worth using? I forgot they existed until now.
It recently saved me a lot of headache with finally ditching a subscription that the parent company made nearly impossible to cancel. After months of ignored emails and frustrating run around calls, I set up a virtual card, added it as a payment method, then deleted my real card info. The card was active for long enough for it to take as a legitimate CC, and then immediately closed. Those fuckers have emailed me (and snail mailed me) a million times trying to get me to update my payment method, lol.
I find it very convenient. Can set spending limits and pause cards. So if you know a company is going to charge $5 a month, set it there and don't sweat it. If the company decides to raise the rates to $20 a couple months later it will get declined and you can tell them to go pound sand.
For something you are only going to run one time they make single use cards as well. It's pretty nice service when they aren't banning you for random reasons.
Damn I was just about to switch my privacy email over to proton mail, thanks for the heads up
I have no clue if that's the reason why, they literally will not tell me!
It's just I hardly used the thing so I can't think of any other terms of service I've broken.
It is crazy how these services are able to ban us for any or no reason and not tell us why, leaving no room for resolution or appeals.
The fact that everything but my purchase history moved over when I changed my email lends me to believe it's related as a stopgap from a compromised account and they just used this as a way to wipe their hands clean of the whole thing. I didn't double check to see if my linked bank account moved but I'm guessing that's another thing that was dropped.
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