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ANY bonus card is basically paying you to be tracked.

It’s the core mechanic.

Even here in privacy conscious Germany the largest bonus card, payback Punkte, is simply giving you a 1% back just to get you to log your own purchase.

Why else would they do it? Because they like you?



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