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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by sema4hacker on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:34AM (#42928449)
Ironically, NearlyFreeSpeech still didn't exactly provide the "simple monthly max spend option" you were looking for, because now you're maintaining multiple prepaid accounts. It's silly that online services won't provide a billable account with a hard max.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by wontondisregard on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:48AM (#42928527)
The hard max is however much money is in your account. Not sure what else you want.
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Re:Escaping Surprise Bills and Over-Engineered Messes: Why I... by robocat on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @12:39AM (#42928473)
Your comment is misinformed.

You can simply configure a single account, or multiple accounts, as you wish. You link sites to accounts so you can control both spending and risk (commonly you don't want site-A slashdotting to affect site-B). With a single account you can limit your financial exposure across multiple sites.

Perhaps refrain from commenting about things you are ignorant about.

I've been a NearlyFreeSpeech customer for many years and its a great service that I can highly recommend.

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