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21 Comments
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If there was also a section for real basic sport news updates. And I mean even just real basic (reporting scores nothing more etc).
Then there would be zero need for me to log onto the other more ''fluffy'' news sites.
Appreciate that this is a finance focused.
''Meanwhile in sports new across the world... etc etc''
Daily update?
I subscribe to interestdotco precisely because it is firmly focused on economic Events, dear boy, Events. It is to Stuff I go if I want to clutter my mind with sport, the irrelevant doings of British royalty and the Kardashians, and untranslated virtue-signalling phrases from a language I don't understand.
PressPatron uses Stripe to process payments and store credit card details, which is a major international payments platform. Your data is just as secure (or insecure) there as it is anywhere else.
PayPal have a reputation for censorship, and for blocking payments to people they decide they don't like. I'm not sure why anyone would want to use them.
I support interest.co and recently I discovered a very interesting share forum, sharetrader.co.nz which is both sub free and ad free and has been for years. Unsure how it manages it. However I do not wish to upset anyone at all with this suggestion, but perhaps interest.co needs a new sustainable business model. It could help the organisation/company be more financially sound as well as attract new commenters. It might even make the property market perform better. Probably not.
Yeah, where are the posts bragging how much capital gains everyone made in property in the last year? All we have now is people pointing out the ongoing social costs of those windfall gains, and how fast the currency is devaluing because there was no actual wealth created, it was simply transferred. Make Interest great again!
I'm a happily paying customer, but it would be good if you could fix the little things.
- I'm constantly bombarded with 'we noticed that you're using an ad blocker. Or, your browser is blocking ad display with its settings' messages even though I shouldn't be getting ad's anyway.
- A few times a week, I start getting ad's again, and need to sign-out, sign-in
-In the top right corner, it says "want to go ad-free, find out how", when I'm already ad-free
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