I’ve had the opposite of this. Now, stuff that you used to get same day IRL now takes two weeks to deliver. But it’s no longer sold in stores, so you actually have to wait, lol.
If it’s in store, I’m too impatient to wait weeks for something to ship from overseas.
The past: allow 4 to 6 weeks for delivery.
Now: same day delivery? Can I pay extra for yesterday delivery?
Fuck that, I demand 3 day ago delivery at a discounted price
The worst was having to find a retail window for concert tickets. Ticketmaster used to delay phone and later internet sales for an hour while in person sales started.
So you could buy in person at 10 am or try the phone or website at 11 am.
So you’d have to find a Sears or other big dept store and wander all over trying to find the ticket terminal and wait in line and hope you’d get good tickets.
I remember getting in line for some beastie boys tickets and was second in line at 9:30 and the lady in front of me was trying to pick tickets to the wringling bros circus and didn’t have any perticular day or time in mind and these circus tickets were always available and on sale like everywhere, so it wasn’t until 10:30 am that she was done and by then general admission was sold out.
I was livid. The 90’s kinda sucked for a lot of things but this one still annoys me.
I would have offered a ten spot to switch places.
Okay, I’ll be that guy: Keep em in your password manager.
And don’t save them in your browser. In fact, turn autofill off for your browser altogether.
You can autofill from your password manager, or copy and paste instead.
Usually, security comes at the cost of inconvenience, but in this case it’s actually the opposite.
I keep them in my brain’s password manager. No way would I ever save credit card numbers on a PC or website. Far too many of my passwords have been stolen over the years to fall for that.
Why not in the browser, though? So convenient.
Disclaimer: I keep them in my Bitwarden account. 👍
Most browsers just keep that crap in a plaintext file. And most of the password manager vulnerabilities, IIRC, have been with their browser extensions.
Many years ago maybe…
Does Firefox not do that anymore?
Not according to their website.
Well then. 😎🔒
Its probably been that long since i stored a password in a browser tbh.
It’s a good rule of thumb that if you do not pay, as the result of some sort of contract, for the service of security, and you do not own the software or hosting within which you expect something to be secure, then you don’t actually have any security.
The browser could be storing your data in plain text, and making it available to other software or malware on your system (or even on websites you visit, or to scripts which run in ads on websites you visit); the browser could be making it available to their internal tools or external “partners”; the browser could be storing it in the cloud and be subject to a breach for which you will never receive a cent; the browser could be doing everything “right” right now, but change their terms next week and your convenience will turn into a liability.
Host it yourself, as you do with bitwarden, and manage your own security, or pay a company to host it who makes it their business and is therefore legally liable if they screw up.
Crane’s law.
I use the free tier of bitwarden.eu. 🤷♂️ I figure it’s their business to be secure, then it should be secure enough.
Weirdly, that ends up being more your bank’s problem than yours since they almost always comp you for credit card theft.
You’re not wrong, of course, just… society gets along just fine being stupid and irresponsible, lol.
i have mine saved on a local file filled with a lot of other unlabeled random shit
Your wallet?
You don’t have your cards saved?
I dont either.
Call me a paranoid lunatic, but I refuse to save any payment information so that in the unlikely event that my account is compromised, I dont need to get new credit cards too
Keep them in your password manager. It’s still more convenient but avoids having to trust random websites with your card info.
I mean I have them stored locally on my devices so they’d need to both have and compromise the device, which might be a real possibility for like a government threat but I’m not really worried about them stealing my credit cards.
It’s more likely that someone will skim it while you’re paying at a restaurant
Yep, or really any situation where someone handles your card. I’ve had mine skimmed a number of times over the years. I’ve seen some really convincing gas pump mounted skimmers too, not sure if I’ve fallen for one because of how realistic they can look.
You don’t have your card number memorized?
I got my card replaced recently, same number except the last four digits. Easy peasy. Punched in all my details then had to go dig out my card because i couldnt remember the new expiry.
I did at one time, now I just remember the security code and look the rest of the info up on my phone in the off chance I need to actually type it in somewhere that can’t autofill it. It’s faster than typing it in if I’d memorized it anyways.
Edit: I should also remind that this is a comment thread on a meme about wanting to be lazier
Hell no
Unlucky me has them memorized.
Then you also don’t have to get your wallet
online shopping is less gratifying because you have to wait for the shit to get to your house. going to a store, its instant. i dont get it.
I would love if I could just walk to a store nearby, unfortunately it’s going to take at minimum 45 minutes of my time to go and buy anything in person.
It just makes sense to buy online unless I need that thing this very instant. I don’t have to spend any more of my free time than the 5 seconds to order something, and can instead get on whatever needs to get done around the house.
Either way, an employee is still getting paid to oversee the purchase of the item (cashier vs delivery driver), and a vehicle is still being driven (a car vs a delivery truck, the delivery truck is probably more eco friendly due to servicing multiple people vs my car servicing just me, as well as skipping the warehouse to store step in a lot of cases. Although still bad, I’d prefer just walking if I had any stores round me. I do have a local hardware store at least, so there’s that)
It’s all relative to the individual’s circumstance, there are of course instances where I need something the same day, and so try and figure out which store I need to go to to get it now. And then they’re out of stock and I go elsewhere.
From my viewpoint, it simply makes sense, from others’ it might not.
Unless your municipality is very different to mine, you have to put pants on to go to a store.
Pre-internet this would still only require getting out of bed from this list. You’d still have to go to the mailbox, but you can do that whenever.
Break your legs or tear your ACL or throw out your back or roll your ankle in half.
You’ll very much appreciate only needing to get to your wallet again.
