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Yes there is https://www.privacy.com/ which gives you a unique virtual credit card per subscription, which you can cancel from the bank.


Nowadays a problem is the subscriptions are all multiplexed through apple, google, and amazon.

I used to religiously use things like ynab, but now I need to find ways to export my amazon transactions, google play, etc. It's nearly impossible, and it makes me feel completely out of control.


That... doesn't necessarily work though?

If I tried that with my gym, they would send me to collections.


> If I tried that with my gym, they would send me to collections.

Let them. I don't know why people let services abuse them like this.


> I don't know why people let services abuse them like this.

One reason is that the negative impact on your credit may end up costing you thousands and thousands of dollars if you e.g. need to get a mortgage


Ok? It's worth self-sacrifice to push back against practices hostile to humanity, like credit. But conforming over a fucking gym membership just strikes me as spineless.




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