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[–] melbaboutown 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

It was Petcircle. I’m not sure if that’s why it wasn’t letting me order but it really did seem to be

There were asterisks on the fields and the Place Order button was grayed out

[–] Taleya 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

weird, lemme check my login

...yup it popped up with that stupid pet profile shit, but there's a DO LATER option that makes it go away - are you on mobile? Maybe try viewing desktop version of the site

[–] melbaboutown 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I am on mobile, I’ll check on the laptop. Still a scummy move on their part. Massive side eye

[–] Taleya 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

TBH i'd put it down to bad coding that renders fucked up on a mobile. Lotta sites guilty of that shit.

worst I ever got from them was the repeated ARE YOU SURE YOU WANT THIS FOOD ITS VET ONLY for Punkin's renal and that wasn't a dealbreaker

[–] melbaboutown 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Being how greedy and unethical a lot of companies are getting in regards to data these days I really wasn’t sure

[–] Taleya 2 points 3 months ago

the stupidest thing about that data collection is they have no fucking idea what to do with it. They just keep selling it to each other like it's goddamn NFTs until someone breaches, but they don't actually generate anything of worth out of it. ooo you wanna target ad me I HAVE ADBLOCKER YOU IDIOT