Answering the narrow version, because the broad one does not have a single answer. It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false. If nothing would look different, it is not a claim about the world and no amount of discussion will settle it.
Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
What would genuinely help is knowing how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both.
I have searched first, so if this is covered somewhere point me at it and I will read it.
Dr.RaviCardio said:It is worth asking what the claim would look like if it were false.
True, with the qualification that this is a self-selected group. The people for whom it did not work post less, and that shapes everything we think we know.
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Shop Reference StandardsCryptoCarl said:Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
Adding a me-too, because a thread of one person's experience is not much use. I had assumed I was the exception until I read this.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. Start from the measurement rather than the conclusion. Almost every disagreement here turns out to be two people measuring different things and comparing the numbers anyway.