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    Settlement cuts swipe fees for five years

    The U.S. needs real consumer protection rather than settlements that act as temporary band-aids.

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      None of this is about consumers. It’s all about divvying up the gouge among businesses.

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        Ultimately costs still get passed onto consumers, so regulating the predatory pricing practices of as many vultures as possible helps.

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          Costs do, savings do not. It’s disingenuous to say that lower costs save customers money. While technically true, consumers always pay and owners always take a fat skim.

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    I can’t access that domain due to Datadome blocking. I’m on a residential ISP with no reputation problems from any source. I’m using regular Firefox on Linux.

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      Remember when things to do to soeed up web browsing was to disable Adobe Flash and Java? Pepperidge Farm remembers.