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Credit freezes
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2017–2023), in 4 threads.
People raised many different problems with Credit freezes, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Freezing credit requires confusing steps, restrictive passwords, and a false success message2023-12-15
- Actual unfreeze button is hidden behind upsell dark patterns2023-08-23
- Unenrolling from free credit reporting is insanely difficult due to bad UI2020-10-14
- Credit freeze signup requires mailed forms, security quizzes, or fees that vary by bureau2017-09-09