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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by catlikesshrimp on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:08PM (#44714264)
Is there any chance that "La aroma de Cuba" brand is associated to tobacco, while LDAC sounds more like a sound codec? Tobacco might be the issue in that case.

I am in no way implying there is no Cuban embargo, nor Cuban censorship.

By the way, why is the name "La aroma de Cuba" and not "El aroma de Cuba"?

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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by duskwuff on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:21PM (#44714437)
It was 100% because the name contained the word "Cuba".

Source: had the exact same problem with PayPal about ten years ago, except the trigger word was the name of another sanctioned country.

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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by nailer on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:18PM (#44714401)
> Is there any chance that "La aroma de Cuba" brand is associated to tobacco

The post you are replying to mentions it is a cigar.

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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by Igrom on Monday July 28, 2025 @03:33PM (#44714602)
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by calvinmorrison on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:42PM (#44715368)
a woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke - Rudyard Kipling
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Re:Visa and Mastercard are getting overwhelmed by gamer fury... by calvinmorrison on Monday July 28, 2025 @04:42PM (#44715371)
it was a tobacco retailer. we did plenty with PeePal
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