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Let's not sugar coat it. The problem is 100% technical. Detecting unexpected charges, scaling and restriction in real time is hard. It's easier to just charge
by wokwokwok 2y ago
Let's not sugar coat it.
The problem is 100% technical. Detecting unexpected charges, scaling and restriction in real time is hard.
It's easier to just charge people money than come up with good ways to avoid charging them, and deal with edge cases as a manual process.
Sure. I get it. What company has an internal team that's like "ooo... lets find ways to cap the amount of money people pay us".
No one.
That's why.
> there are reasons other than malice and avarice
Right.
It's just avarice. There's no other reason.
- tptacek 2y ago> The problem is 100% technical. Detecting unexpected charges, scaling and restriction in real time is hard. > It's just avarice. There's no other reason.
- wokwokwok 2y agoYes. Not doing things that are hard because they’re being greedy, and don’t want to cap the amount people can be charged. The problem is technically solvable, it’s good for customers. All you need to do is prioritise actually doing it. In what stupid world do we pretend this is somehow good for consumers? Racking up thousands of dollars in bills? It’s just the status quo. They’re not not fixing it because it’s hard; that’s just the convenient excuse; they’re not fixing it because they don’t want to.