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This is kind of a misleading title. While they "ended" the 30-percent cut, they are keeping a 20-percent cut.
by jadar 7mo ago
This is kind of a misleading title. While they "ended" the 30-percent cut, they are keeping a 20-percent cut.
- upcoming-sesame 7mo agoworse title I've seen in a while
- varispeed 7mo agoSoviet level of journalism... “Did you hear? On Red Square they’re giving away cars.” “Not quite. First, it’s not on Red Square but on Dzerzhinsky Square. Second, they’re not cars but bicycles. And third, they’re not giving them away, they’re stealing them.”
- tw-20260303-001 7mo ago"Did you hear, Russians went to space", "All of them?", "No, just one", "Then why do you bother me."
- quentindanjou 7mo agoIt would have been about Apple it probably would have said "Apple starts charging 20% fees on the AppStore"
- onlyrealcuzzo 7mo agoThe majority of which is going directly to Visa, Amex, Mastercard.
- john_strinlai 7mo agoi dont believe any of those companies take anywhere near a 20% cut per transaction
- dbbk 7mo agoAlso, iOS App Store and Google Play Store aren't just straight payment processing, they are Merchant of Record.
- Legend2440 7mo agoNah, credit card fees are like 1.5 to 3.5%.
- sofixa 7mo agoCountry dependent, in the EU there is a legal cap of 0.2% for debit and 0.3% for credit card transactions.
- onlyrealcuzzo 7mo agoInterchange is $0.35. On small transactions, that eats up a lot.
- rezonant 7mo agoThat's incredible, so Stripe at 3% plus $0.30 per transactions must be losing money hand over fist!
- Imustaskforhelp 7mo ago> This is kind of a misleading title Kind of is doing a lot of work there. This might be THE most misleading title I heard. Jumping into this thread I expected they went from 30% to 0% not 20% so I appreciate your comment for giving me more context. Can Dang or HN moderation team fix the title to better reflect the true state and not be misleading as it currently is? thanks in advance!
- waynesonfire 7mo agoOr better yet, remove it all together. Why promote this type of deceivement? It looks to be a pretty massive messaging compaign promoting this deceptive wording.
- justinclift 7mo agoNote that the title is the same as the actual article's heading. :(
- dataflow 7mo ago> This is kind of a misleading title That kind of is an understatement