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Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch by eganist on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:27AM (#23283194)
it's funny because:

1. Citibank did this for a long time. They still might. I remember using this in the late 2000s for some online services at the time.

2. Apple and Google Pay both do this as well, though these are all one-time-use implementations.

It's sold as this pretty revolutionary feature that others have done (in some capacity) for quite a while now.

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Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch by robohoe on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:35AM (#23283258)
Bank of America and https://privacy.com/ Have done this for years too.
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Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch by armandhammer on Saturday May 23, 2020 @11:46PM (#23288914)
BoA discontinued that service (ShopSafe) last year, and it had basically been abandoned for a few years before that since it required Flash and was never a part of their mobile app.
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Re:Netflix stops charging customers who never watch by criddell on Saturday May 23, 2020 @10:40AM (#23283307)
A feature isn't revolutionary until people use it.

Apple didn't invent virtual numbers, but they have a better implementation than Citibank. It's Apple's MO.

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