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Mastercard Surveillance To Block Your Purchases

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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    The market will fix this real quick. There will be cards introduced that don’t do this, and MasterCard will lose their ass. Problem solved.
  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,293 Standard Supporter

    The market will fix this real quick. There will be cards introduced that don’t do this, and MasterCard will lose their ass. Problem solved.

    Unless people just go along with it like they are everything else. Eg, social media controlling their news, accepting controls over life due to COVID, etc.
  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696

    The market will fix this real quick. There will be cards introduced that don’t do this, and MasterCard will lose their ass. Problem solved.

    Such as every other card that's been introduced in history? Nobody's forcing anybody to get this credit card. It's a product pitched at green conscious consumers and virtue signalers. Mastercard won't lose their ass because Mastercard will have plenty of traditional options as well. Their competition won't have this, though, so they might snag a tiny slice of market share away.

    The part that makes me laugh the hardest is that it's somehow news that credit card processors track purchases. Uh, duh. How could they not? If you want to have a chat with a representative from your bank, get gas at a gas station, then drive to the gas station across the street and get gas there, too. Your phone will ring before you're finished. Or at least it would 20 years ago when I used to do this fairly regularly. Buying a lot of stuff in another state without warning your bank you were traveling first is almost a surefire call, too. But nobody's tracking purchases...

    Mastercard partnered with some firm that assigns a carbon score to consumer goods purchases (I'm sure in a "really scientific way") that have been being tracked since the inception of the credit card so that rich people can voluntarily be constrained to some total and sleep better at night.

    News at eleven...
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,102
  • SarkFanSixtyNine
    SarkFanSixtyNine Member Posts: 373
    edited September 2021
    Good example of why the future is either crypto or authoritarian dystopia. Mastercard and Visa and many other major banks already shutdown payment processing and banking for open wrongthinkers.
    Next step is obviously going after the wrongthinkees:



  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,560
    dnc said:

    Good example of why the future is either crypto or authoritarian dystopia. Mastercard and Visa and many other major banks already shutdown payment processing and banking for open wrongthinkers.
    Next step is obviously going after the wrongthinkees:



    Definitely NOT a good thing for anyone on this site
    We are so fucked!
  • FireCohen
    FireCohen Member Posts: 21,823

    dnc said:

    Good example of why the future is either crypto or authoritarian dystopia. Mastercard and Visa and many other major banks already shutdown payment processing and banking for open wrongthinkers.
    Next step is obviously going after the wrongthinkees:



    Definitely NOT a good thing for anyone on this site
    We are so fucked!
    Stalin will send money to have this server burned down
  • LongDukDong
    LongDukDong Member Posts: 1,306
    edited September 2021
  • pawz
    pawz Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 22,470 Founders Club

    Good example of why the future is either crypto or authoritarian dystopia. Mastercard and Visa and many other major banks already shutdown payment processing and banking for open wrongthinkers.
    Next step is obviously going after the wrongthinkees:



    As if we? needed more excuse to use crypto to transact trades ...
  • Tequilla
    Tequilla Member Posts: 20,102
    pawz said:

    Good example of why the future is either crypto or authoritarian dystopia. Mastercard and Visa and many other major banks already shutdown payment processing and banking for open wrongthinkers.
    Next step is obviously going after the wrongthinkees:



    As if we? needed more excuse to use crypto to transact trades ...
    I’m still not completely sold on crypto … but the middle finger to governments is a really compelling use case