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Originally Posted by Victor-E
At least they wished you a wonderful day. I didn't even get that. Just that the fees are doubled. This is on Visa though. Not CCBill. It's really the credit card companies and puritan politicians that are trying to kill porn.
But the ultimate culprit is the availability of free porn on the Internet. Just about every kid has seen porn by now and that's why they are doing this. And as usual, they are going after the wrong people. They should get rid of all the file sharing sites. Not porn producers. This will just make everything worse. Only big companies who also run tube sites, like PornHub, will remain.
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Actually the bastards didn't wish me a wonderful day. I added that for comic effect. Well, it amused me!
Yes, you're right, it's not CCBILL's fault. It did list a lot of other types of businesses that also had this increase:
5967:
Adult Content
7273:
Dating and Escort Services
7995:
Gambling
5122, 5912:
Pharmacies
6051, 6012:
Crypto Merchants: exchanges, wallet providers, on-ramp providers (card absent)
4816:
Cyberlockers and similar remote digital file sharing services (card absent)
5816:
Games of Skill (card absent)
6211:
High Integrity Risk Financial Trading Platform (card absent)
5968:
Subscription “Negative Option” Merchants (card absent)
5993:
Tobacco Sales (cross-border card absent)
5966:
Outbound Telemarketing (card absent)
They say it's to do with risk. I assume that adult and all these other categories are considered by the banks as being high risk.
Maybe the reason for the increase is that there is just more online fraud these days. So I'm not sure if it's got anything to do with
the availability of free porn.