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Comment Always Be Closing (Score 5, Insightful) 32

Eventually it will be free and ad-supported, they just haven't figured out how to fully monetize its userbase yet. The potential is huge since advertising will gladly pay to manipulate your behavior by subtly working suggestive product placements into every response.

By the way, I'm selling these fine leather jackets...

Comment Re:Not specific to Steam (Score 1) 26

It's definitely not specific to Steam. Apple and Google Play gift cards are also used a lot in scamming, they may even accept Target and Home Depot cards. Really, they go for any gift card that is easy to re-sell. There are black markets for this kind of thing, people can buy cheap gift cards from sketchy sites and turn those stolen gift cards into cash or crypto. And to the retailer, it makes no difference... they already sold the gift card, the customer's money is gone and if someone else uses it, it's not their problem. The only difference here is that Steam would rather their customers have a good experience, even if it means losing a little bit of potential revenue from allowing scammers to exploit their customers.

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