• BenVimes@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Couldn’t have happened to a nicer company.

    Anecdotally, Klarna is the company that bought StoCard, an app for scanning and storing loyalty cards, and replaced it with their own app. I personally liked StoCard and found the microloan bloat of Klarna to be unbearable.

    I realize that’s not as serious a charge as the predatory microloans themselves, but it does give me some measure of personal satisfaction to read about their self-inflicted wounds.

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      I realize that’s not as serious a charge as the predatory microloans themselves, but it does give me some measure of personal satisfaction to read about their self-inflicted wounds.

      I dont think klarna’s part in micro lending is any less despicable than that of the microlenders. They are working together to sell predatory products for a profit. To me, a person selling customers to loan sharks is just as morally guilty as the loan sharks themselves.

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      Dang. I liked stocard. It’s still installed and I’ve been using it. Sigh. Time to change it out.

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        Interesting that you were still using StoCard. Some months ago the app broke for me and directed me to download Klarna. My info had been migrated over and everything.

        I promptly found a new loyalty card app (SuperCards) once I saw the microloans and other unnecessary garbage in Klarna.

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          2 days ago

          Really? It stopped working? I was just using it today. Started converting to a catina thingy though so if it breaks no big loss.