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Same here. I got a gift card, went to the site to check its value, didn't get a cookie banner but they still hired this third party from the other side of the planet to try and identify which human I am, allegedly the only way to tell whether I'm human (y'know, a 21 digit account number isn't proof enough). The third party decided I'm not. Wanted to contact customer support, guess what? Form broken. Turned of tracking protection, ad blocker, etc. No dice. Tried a second browser, same issue. Called the next day and finally got to the amount... Of course they couldn't reproduct the ReCAPTCHA issue and the form didn't give them an Internal Server Error either. Must be me.

If this were about not being able to see cat pictures, alright, but this is about accessing money that I'm supposed to own. This is so backwards to me.



Which brings us back to the old way of using cash instead of gift cards, it might have a number of other issues, still it remains simpler.




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