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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Every service claims that the primary motivation for that is just to verify that you're a real person and to cut down on spam/fraud.

Some services actually mean it. Most are exploiting you, because somebody heard at a conference one time that conversions go up when you do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I used to believe people were better at keeping track of those things, but now I know a lot of people aren't even aware of all of their subscriptions.

It's likely a fair amount of people forget and later get charged for quite a while, they just bank on those.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. Even if you only let one or two payment cycles go by and then cancel, that's still money in the bank, and-- perhaps more importantly-- someone's KPI (like "number of paid conversions" or something) goes up. It's a "win" for someone, even if you feel cheated.