Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Categories
Random page
Top Contributors
Recent changes
Contribute
Create a page
How to help
Wiki policy
Adapt videos to articles
Articles in need of work
Help
Frequently asked questions
Join the discord!
Help about MediaWiki
Consumer_Action_Taskforce
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Scribd
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
Edit source
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
Edit source
View history
Purge cache
General
What links here
Related changes
Special pages
Page information
Cargo data
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Trial period=== Scribd gatekeeps documents uploaded by their users, which Scribd does not own and did not create, behind a login wall. [[File:Scribd forced download.png|thumb|Scribd forces their free trial onto users who want to download documents]] Behind that login wall, they push their free trial which requires a credit card in order for a user to download. While they do offer an alternative of uploading 5 documents for a user to download their desired document for free, A) most users are there to download documents, the ratio of uploaders to downloaders is always going to be few-many and B) this option is written in small text and placed at the bottom of the page, implying Scribd's main goal is to push their free trial. [[File:Scribd credit card page.png|thumb|Scribd free trial subscription page that tries to capture users' credit card information. Scribd practices a classic predatory scheme that relies on users forgetting to cancel and getting billed every month.]] This is a classic predatory "get your credit card details and hope you forget to cancel so they can charge you" scheme.
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Consumer_Action_Taskforce are considered to be released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (see
Consumer Action Taskforce:Copyrights
for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource.
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following hCaptcha:
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
