Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
What I actually want to know is how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both.
Practical detail welcome, however dull — the duller the better.
Answering the narrow version, because the broad one does not have a single answer. Take it one variable at a time. Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent argument can untangle them after the fact.
Happy to go further on any of that.
TirzTom said:Almost every unanswerable question in these threads is unanswerable because three things changed in the same fortnight, and no amount of subsequent…
That holds where the measurement is reliable. Where it is noisy — and a lot of what gets tracked here is noisy — the same reasoning produces confident nonsense.
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View ResultsDataDave said:Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
Mine went the same way, slower.
Adding the clinical framing, because it changes how the question reads. The honest answer is that the effect is real, the magnitude is contested, and the individual variation is larger than either. Those three things can all be true at once, and most arguments here are two people holding different parts of that.