tidderuuf comments on Peacock is raising prices across all of its streaming plans

[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago (6 children)

They are hoping to get enough people to forget about their subscription during this hike.

They even admitted most of the new subscribers were from Olympics and third party signups like Xfinity, T-Mobile, etc that give subscriptions out for free.

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

This is why I use masked cards to sign up for these services. I lock them in at a certain price per month, and if that price goes up on its own, then they'll suddenly discover they don't have my money.

Not that it should require a hack like that, mind you...

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[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

How do you do masked cards where you can control the regular charge amount? Is that a particular bank's feature or?

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[–] XLE@piefed.social 3 points 2 months ago

Privacy.com's cards offer that feature (allegory the original selling point for me was that I could use them alongside any name/address). It's helped me cut down on attempted fraud a couple times too.

I think it's technically a payment processor, but functionally it's more like a proxy between a bank and online shops/services

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

I use an app called Privacy. You just connect your bank account to it and then setup any one time or monthly recurring payments.

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