An agreed statement of facts shows Cineplex made more than $11.6 million in the six months after the fees were implemented in mid-2022 and another $27.3 million on fees in 2023.

  • DoomsdaySprocket@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Their online ticket buying is atrocious.

    From last night, on a PC using Firefox:

    • crashes log in to account unless you enable all cookies for the site
    • forced 2FA to a phone number (I just hate these, it’s a way for them to steal your phone number)
    • refuses to let you buy tickets unless you re-enable all cookies for the site (and puts a countdown on that page)
    • fees are at the end of the page scroll on the 3rd or 4th page in
    • refuses to let you pay unless you add a whole-ass credit card to your account, while cookies and trackers are enabled, again with a counter

    Never have I had to disable Firefox’s onboard blocking to simply pay for something with a credit card online, I’m highly suspicious of Cineplex’s back end and the second any weird activity happens on that credit card, or email address, I’m going after them.

    They should be legally forced to use an existing well-regarded payment vendor, because whatever is going on now, they’re doing something either very incompetent, or very fishy.

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      9 months ago

      Why don’t you use cookie auto delete? Are you explicitly blocking cross site cookies; if so, can you give more details what the cross site cookies were doing?