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Use privacy.com and give them a temporary credit card. Close the card when you want to cancel. Is this ethical? You're not using the software anymore, so you'r
by AlbertCory 4y ago
Use privacy.com and give them a temporary credit card. Close the card when you want to cancel.
Is this ethical? You're not using the software anymore, so you're not getting something for nothing. Rather, you're avoiding paying something for nothing.
- NLPlatypus 4y agoBut he received a discount on his monthly rate when he agreed to subscribe for a year at a time.
- AlbertCory 4y agoThere is a power imbalance between him & a giant multinational corporation, and he's just rectified it.
- daniel-cussen 4y agoOh that's what this is about?
- arrow7000 4y agoI don't remember subscribing for a year at a time. I almost always subscribe to things on a monthly basis, and the money certainly comes out of my account on a monthly basis
- JBits 4y agoHe's breaking his agreement with Adobe but it wasn't ethical for Adobe to obscure the fact he was agreeing to a cancellation fee in the first place.
- bognition 4y agoThis won't stop Adobe from sending collections after you
- AlbertCory 4y agoHas that ever happened?
- synicalx 4y agoFor small amounts (hundreds of dollars), it's often not economical to do this. And if they do end up doing it then its even less economical for an agency to do anything other than automated collections activities (emails, robo-calls etc) which can safely be ignored.
- muzani 4y agoI would say it's unethical as long as the seller doesn't consent to it. But legal. I see it as similar to pirating it, though piracy is illegal as well. Are the seller's terms unethical? Perhaps. I don't think that justifies being unethical in response, though. Arguably the PayPal trick is more ethical because they decide it's not worth chasing the cancellation fee.
- ipaddr 4y agoEthical is not a word you can use to describe any aspect when having an interaction with a company. A company is not a living person following common social morals. Trying to generalized actions are unethical or ethical or more or less ethical is completely subjective based on your understand and acceptance of the society rules you have been exposed to. Company work with objective laws with judges deciding disputes.
- AlbertCory 4y agoI guess we'll have to disagree on the equivalency of this and pirating. With pirating, you're continuing to use it without paying.