Issue a chargeback.
This kind of shenanigans are the exact benefit of credit cards. You’re no longer getting what the merchant sold you. You didn’t agree to this.
They will in all likelihood ban your credit card and terminate your account, but this harms them a fuck ton more than just cancelling.
Issue a chargeback.
Be careful with chargebacks on Google Play though. I hear Google don’t like chargebacks and they absolutely ghost you after permanently disabling your Google account if you do it.
I know for a fact Sony will. I hesistate to call it a chargeback, but my bank did a transaction reversal after they caught a double charge from PlayStation for a game. The rep on the phone called it a chargeback. This wasn’t a double click accident; the transactions were 10 hours apart and I was asleep for the second. They locked my account and refused to accept any evidence that this was a mistake on their part and everything was in the clear as to who owed who money. I had screenshots and communications with my bank, but there was no one to send it to. They told me to pay the amount, then we could clear it up. I told them I’m not paying $150 for one game.
I never got my account back and lost all of my digital titles. I’ve used it as a warning now that Sony is talking about killing off discs. They can and will cut you off whenever they feel like it and you have zero recourse. You don’t own any of it.
That calls for an escalation to small claims court.
Make ‘em fly an attorney in from Japan
Yet another reason why antitrust law is important. The same entity shouldn’t be able to shut off your email because you had a dispute over an entirely separate product.
Be evil :) their motto stronger than ever right now
The commercials are free dude
Never stopped pirating gang, pop out.
I’m so glad this hasn’t been an issue in my life for the last 20ish years.
When I stay in a hotel now I get legitimately offended by commercials. I actually find them offensive.
Same, I stop watching anything with a commercial outside of Golf. Which is background viewing anyway, simultaneously inundated with commercials, the irony isnt lost here, but I like golf and it’s the only time I can handle it.
Ive also started reading novels again, just mentally preparing for the inevitable break away from all streaming/reinvented cable bundling bullshit. Video games aren’t far behind either which is my true last bastion
The line must go up.
this is why i use ad blockers regardless. if they block the internet for me then it was never worth anything in the first place. basically like social media gas lighting and banning users for speaking political truth because it threatens their stock.
So stop paying them. It really is that easy.
It’s Morphe ing time
Likewise when you download a free app whose ad explicitly says, “No ads!” and it does, in fact, have ads.
i’ve never paid for an app.
not sure why anyone does.
I pay for apps to support the developer, so the app continues to be developed
Especially if I get to disable any advertising and tracking as part of that
