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Re:How credit cards make money by figassis on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:15PM (#29124825)
My solution to this is having a debit card connected to an account that has no funds and allows no overdrafts. And I only load the account when I specifically want to pay for something. I do this for everything, incl. Spotify, Netflix, etc. I pay a subscription when I want to pay for it, so usually at the end of the month I load the total of my subscriptions and they all go away. This also helps me keep track of my spending and is a good way to see how little things add up, like apple in app subscriptions. I do this religiously because once I was traveling in the winter and suddenly I had $200 disappear from my card and I was unable to get a cab/uber and almost froze to death. Had to get help from police officers. I swore to never again let anyone just take money from me without my approval, whether I owed them or not.

So you find my card in the wild, good luck.

Re:How credit cards make money by prepend on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:48PM (#29125070)
How is this better than using a credit card?
Re:How credit cards make money by Jensson on Friday November 05, 2021 @10:36PM (#29127033)
Debit cards has orders of magnitude less fees per transaction. You might be fine paying 3% of your money to credit card companies but a lot of others would be fine with a debit card. The US system makes everyone share the burden of paying for credit cards, but in Europe they can't do that so people mostly go with the much cheaper debit cards.
Re:How credit cards make money by figassis on Monday November 08, 2021 @09:51AM (#29149835)
Some people can't have credit cards bc they're not us citizens or permanent residents.
Re:How credit cards make money by chemmail on Friday November 05, 2021 @05:56PM (#29125135)
Some people can't control themselves.