A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.
TransUnion asks for your credit card info as part of the "identity verification process" and then charges you $25 for the credit report "subscription" that at no point can you opt out of.
You have to call and talk to a human to get it refunded. During the call they will have "technical problems" and drop the line.
I hate TransUnion.
I find myself wondering if you can stop payment on your credit card? You've attempted to work with the company, so I assume that meets the cc provider requirement of attempting to resolve. Not sure, but worth a shot
Yes, you can. It's called a chargeback. Companies hate it, because it's a refund plus a fee/fine they have to pay for being awful. You just call your credit card company and ask them to initiate a chargeback. They'll ask some questions about if/how you attempted to go through the right channels, how much time you allowed them, etc.
I knew there was a mechanism but not the name for it! Thank you!
There's an even worse variant of that.
At least that's how the app devs imagine how that's going to go. IRL though, you just kill the app immediately, leave a bad review about dark patterns, and delete the whole scamware from your phone. If the devs are feeling extra greedy, they'll also ask for you to rate the app long before you've even had an opportunity to do anything with it.
You're assuming you need to hit submit before they get that form information.
They're collecting everything you type, the second you type it. Creating an account is just extra
You do. When you press submit it sends a http post message with your information. They are not reading your keyboard input on a website. You can verify this with wireshark and any website with a form.
Yeah some places with apps MAY do as you say like Facebook such with full permissions to your phone. That said its still sent as a http post request, just recorded locally and then sent as a giant packet.
That's why they have the submit button. Otherwise they would have way too many transactions. "a" then "d" then "a" and then "m" and have to concatinate them on the server plus initial packet saying they are getting a first name. Then another that you stopped focusing on first name.
Now how do you handle if I typed adan and go back to correct it? Some apps might do this but general web development(99.999%) doesn't.