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Valve confirms credit card companies pressured it to delist certain adult games

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713 points freedomben | 1 comments | 18 Jul 25 15:54 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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timpera ◴[18 Jul 25 16:24 UTC] No.44606574[source]▶
Considering their volume, I find it hard to believe that Valve couldn't find another, more lenient payment processor with similar fees.
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astura ◴[18 Jul 25 16:31 UTC] No.44606650[source]▶
Adult content has a high chargeback rate and high fraud rates so payment processing for adult content has higher fees.
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1. Dylan16807 ◴[18 Jul 25 16:40 UTC] No.44606780[source]▶
People say that a lot but I haven't seen actual statistics, and sites that have established low chargeback rates face the same issues.

Also that's not a reason to ban certain genres/kinks, which is what's happening here.