Eh, I mean they’re designed to be as predatory as possible but if you do math and treat it as a debit you literally just get free money back.

Also you need a credit history here as no credit is treated as the same (if not worst) than bad credit and the only other options for establishing one is taking out loans.

If you’re okay never being able to finance a vehicle or house though, then no credit history is fine as long as you can provide full cash for those purchases up front.

shopping spree on a non-taxation one

You have discovered Delaware.

Are any of those official successors?

Just about any defunct online service sees a dozen knockoffs of even more questionable quality than the original (for those into manga, think what happened to the site batoto after being sold). But it still remains that if you go to omegle.com, you get the defunct page and an explanation. Typing it into search engines did give exactly one that I know is legitimately a chatting service (ome.tv), but also are trying to act as if they are the original sites, some seemingly using templates and pointing to different apps to direct download their apks and the like.

I think suggesting they’re the same as the original (which was grimy, and full of sex pests, but the site itself didn’t pose such blatant infosec issues) is disingenuous imo

Omegle

Gramps, they shut down 2 years ago