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      I thought it had to be a joke article from the title. Yeesh wouldn’t want to be the person who gets the fallout from this idea.

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    “To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!”

    A $10 Ubereats gift card will barely cover fees and taxes, let alone the actual item. What a clown ass gesture.

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      Not only that, but usually to activate these cards, you have to spend upwards of double what the card is worth too, and the fees cannot be included in the total

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        Like amzn, they make sure you get minimum joy, even from a gift, because you’re going to spend a chunk of mom’s gift card balance on shipping. The “shipping included on sub total of X amount” is going to be cancelled by online retailers within a year, I’m calling it now. Are we sure that cheapstrike and amzn aren’t run by the same AI, one that self awareness drove mad?

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    This is a typical mail a phishing campaign would send out, and we have already said to people "never believe this kind of messages. They are all fake.

    Now, if a genuine company sends out mails with a genuine gift-cards (what the article on techcrunch seems to indicate) … this is NOT helpfull at all!!!

    And that comming from a cybersecurity company (rolling-eyes)

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      6 months ago

      Buy a $10 Xbox gift card and send us the code so that we can activate it. Then you get back to the shop and get $20 in cash - $10 for returning the card and $10 from us. We’ll pay the tax, too.

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    I expect these clowns to lose most of their market share within two years and get sued to oblivion.

    My firm bills by the hour and so far I think we are at 10+ billing hours per consultant wasting time with client tech support trying to get back on our VDIs. Nevermind how much time is being wasted doing the work through work arounds. My guess is that our firm alone will bill for about $100,000 extra this month while having accomplished less than normal. I am sure Crowdstrike’s gift card will fix it though.

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      They’re backed by the US government. They have a backdoor into most endpoints on many international corporate computers. And CS is behodent to US laws for NSLs.

      This is an incredible asset to the US intelligence community. They won’t let CS go out of business.