I do not have a credit card, and do not want "beautiful" polls. But, I think, as they mentioned if you are not subscribed then you cannot "unsubscribe" (I see nothing about subscribing anywhere on that web page, although I do not know how Stripe is working; I found something about subscriptions there but I don't know how that works or even if that is being used here; presumably it isn't). However, I started making up my own poll software (based on plain text, not HTML), so you might look once I do, in case you don't like this one.

Collecting? No. Using Stripe to charge $1 to gate brigading. Unless you think everyone using payment processors on HN are also "collecting"?

You can easily vet the payment flow in the browser console, which is taken directly from the Stripe docs. Also, since there's no data collection, period, there's nothing to unsubscribe.

Please take some time to actually either read the privacy link, or if you are really concerned, inspect what the browser does with your information as Stripe's library processes it with their servers for a one time transaction.