arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

"T-Mobile now requires a debit card or linked bank account to set up automatic payments and receive the company's AutoPay discount. T-Mobile stopped accepting credit cards for automatic payments a few months ago."

lol what, why?

personally, I would not trust a phone carrier with direct access to my bank account

especially one who keeps having data breaches apparently

"Today's data leak appears to be a minor problem compared to T-Mobile's history of data breaches. In addition to breaches earlier this year, T-Mobile admitted in 2021 that attackers stole personal information on nearly 49 million accounts."

tbh I don't trust any vendor with PAD (pre-authorized debit) access to my bank account

mostly because I don't trust them to not double bill (or worse) and getting that fixed is harder than getting a charge on a credit card removed

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@packetcat funny, that's the standard mode of operation for paying recurring bills here in Germany

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