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by ravenstine 2366 days ago
> god knows I'm not creating an account to give a site 0.99

Who says you have to create a new account on every site? A cookie set after the payment processor has completed is all you need.

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That will create a ton of angry customers who had their cookies auto-deleted e.g. because of Incognito. Support costs will outweigh the few pennies earned.

Especially with a tech-ninded crowd, relying on the persistence of cookies is completely unworkable because of the large percentage of users with extensions that block or wipe cookies eagerly.