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Swede here, and as paranoid as the next person. I moved from Gmail due to privacy concerns. I block a lot of tracking domains at DNS level. However, those are
by jacobr 15y ago
Swede here, and as paranoid as the next person. I moved from Gmail due to privacy concerns. I block a lot of tracking domains at DNS level.
However, those are trade-offs with very little negative impact in my daily routines. A slightly worse UI for my email is nothing like moving from cards back to cash. It would be like moving from the Internet back to snail mail because email is insecure, or perhaps to Stallman type email/wget web browsing. Simply not worth it.
Speaking of snail mail, I send a handful of those a year and barely know where to put the stamp. I handle my taxes, student loans, banking, social insurance (for my kid), etc, online.
I would love better regulations for usage of consumer data, but cash? No way.
- _delirium 15y agoI get the convenience for things like paying rent, taxes, etc., but the main reason I don't use credit cards for small things is how much less convenient it is. Much easier to hand over 50 Kr than go through the routine of: gesture to indicate I'm paying with card / make way over to machine at the end of the bar (waiting if someone else is using it) / insert card / enter pin / pause to confirm it went through. Even if I have to wait to receive change, it's usually still faster.
- ars 15y agoThe main reason I use credit cards for everything including small things is that it's so much faster and more convenient. Also, I don't carry coins anymore, and I rarely carry bills either (I'm in the US).
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- niklas_a 15y agoThe downside being that you have very little consumer protection if you buy something that is broken. I buy everything through my Mastercard credit card. I always pay my bill at the end of the month so I never pay anything extra for it. It has saved me countless of times when I have ordered stuff online or bought stuff in stores that they have refused to take back. And on top of that I get bonus points that have given me free flights.
- _delirium 15y agoI doubt a credit card is going to do much for me if I receive substandard beer or coffee. :) I do use credit-cards for purchases of physical items. European cards don't typically give cash-back or bonus points, though.
- icebraining 15y agomake way over to machine at the end of the bar Really? Here in Portugal portable payment terminals are nearly ubiquitous. The rest is very true, though.
- Vergle 15y agowhat email solution do you use? I've been thinking about a change too
- jacobr 15y agoI get email services from my VPS provider and use it with a desktop email client or, increasingly, on my phone. They have a crappy Squirrel webmail that I very rarely use.