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Is this yet another middle man to suck fees out of the system? I have not kept up with Square but despise the though of yet another fee leech that is compiling a list of my purchases to sell to annoying advertising companies.

/shoutAtClouds



> yet another fee leech that is compiling a list of my purchases to sell to annoying advertising companies.

Square's business model is transactional. It's not advertising based!


Read closer.

"compiling a list of my purchases" Visa, Amex, Discover, Mastercard... All do this and are transactional.

"to sell to annoying advertising companies" And this.




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