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		pain_perdu on Oct 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: X begins charging new users $1 a year in New Zeala... It's trivial to prevent this category of card from being accepted. Many similar services already block pre-paid cards.

steeleyespan on Oct 18, 2023 | [–]

Google Adwords already does this, for example.

THere was a period where spammers would run up high charges on prepaid cards and (of course) not actually pay for the ads.

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