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[–] phoneymouse 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s definitely a dark pattern built into the app / gift card experience.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Kind of. The app doesn’t in any way tell you that you can use the card balance to pay part of your bill and then use a credit card for the rest; I only found out when a barista told me