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by sammyd56 1918 days ago
A stark reminder to end users of any service that if you are not paying, you are the product. There is good reason that the sale of financial services through intermediaries is a highly regulated area: it takes a firm counter-force to stop businesses from exploiting customers when all the incentives are there, and there are enough links in the chain for plausible deniability.