@ustralien Obviously, #widthdrawals in the form of #subscription are the main leverage here and many if not all sites operate on 4 pillars to keep revenue incoming.

• It's easier to subscribe than unsubscribe. It takes more clicks or they try to prevent people aggressively from cancelling by not allowing cancellations as easy as subscriptions.
• Platforms don't just accept "No!" and instead push for either 'returning customer spechal offers' or "pausing" a subscription at most.
• Most platforms incentivize people into "forgetting" that they still pay for a service they don't use. Compared to Services that are pay-as-ypu-go / pay-per-use they won't send #Spam to incentivize people to "retry" their service or buy something again.
• Add to that all the emotional manipulation and guilt tripping they can get away with legally.

Making "onboarding easy - offboarding painful, frustrating and hard" is something sites literally pay for!

#Enshittification #rant #ConsumerRights #onsumerProtection

@txt_file @lina the Problem with #PayPal is that they have NO REAL #COMPETITION, so being an asshole corporation has no real consequences.

I mean, look at the state of #OnlinePayments:

• #TradFinance fearmongered regulators and institutions into #Monero #delistings and bans.

• #wero doesn't even get mandatory acceptance within the #SEPA-Area and doesn't support non-SEPA accounts, thus is less useful than #UnionPay, #AliPay & #WeChatPay in #Germany.

• The 3 before-mentioned providers won't even offer their services for #EU citizens/non-"P.R." #China residents.

• #WesternUnion, #RIA, #MoneyGram, etc. are absurdly expensive and don't work well nor can be integrated as #OnlinePayment.

• #PerfectMoney, like #Mir, is basically useless outside #Russia & #CIS member states.

• Same goes for all the other national providers like #SOFORTÜBERWEISUNG (absorbed by #Klarna, basically only seen in Germany), etc.

PayPal OWNS the market for #payments harder than Autodesk for Engineering Software and Adobe for Creative Software because #regulators like @EUCommission refuse to regulate!

• People who have neither #CreditCards (from the 2,5 Oligopolists from the USA: #Visa, #MasterCard & #AMEX) nor a PayPal account are basically "banned from #OnlineShopping"!

• #Stripe can't even do #WireTransfer or #Widthdrawals from SEPA bank accounts!