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Or if you have Capital One, they offer a browser extension called Eno to generate unique virtual numbers for each site or purchase.
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Nice, a bailin. But sure, most banks have fees like that, and typically don't for a few years just to attract the broke people that were looking for an account with no fees. Then they turn them on.
> But sure, most banks have fees like that A bank account with fees? I've never seen that. They make money by loaning out your money, so they don't need to charge a fee.
So, congratulations you are privileged by being wealthy or living in a developed nation, check it.
Well, I'm glad I don't have money left there, because I had two factor authentication turned on, and for some unforseen circumstances, I lost my phone number. PayPal customer service is actually quite hard to contact, because every possibility they give you requires you to log in. I found an email address somewhere, but when I wrote them telling them about my situation, I got an email that if I log in I can check the…
Similar here. I've been using PayPal to receive our Patreon balance each month and pay various project (sqlitebrowser.org) related experiences. Just over a week ago, when I tried logging in to PayPal (2FA is not enabled) a new screen appeared saying they'd sent an SMS with code to my phone number, and I need to type it in. Problem being, the phone number they displayed is not mine. I've never given them my mobile num…
Peter Thiel the “libertarian” went on to found Palantir, for example, which helps governments do precrime and encourages mass surveillance of their citizens.
He also opined that “competition is for losers and you should build a monopoly” which as the first check in Facebook helped influence Mark Zuckerberg, and the results we see today. Back then Mark Z wanted to make peer to peer encrypted networks like Wirehog.
Peter thiel also wrote op eds saying stuff like giving women the vote ruined the USA by making it more social-democratic instead of capitalist.
Musk I think has long moved on from the PayPal days.
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Nice, a bailin. But sure, most banks have fees like that, and typically don't for a few years just to attract the broke people that were looking for an account with no fees. Then they turn them on.
> But sure, most banks have fees like that A bank account with fees? I've never seen that. They make money by loaning out your money, so they don't need to charge a fee.
I work in an unrelated industry where the economics are the same - low spend accounts require more hand-holding (support time = money, etc.) and can be "upside down" (no profit, lossy), whereas large enterprise accounts generate money by their sheer hands-off approach done at scale.
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I have the same exact problem! I wanted to delete my account, just in case, but I cannot login. I haven't used Paypal in over 10 years. Their "service" is really not needed anymore.
If you sell on eBay, Paypal is heavily integrated, to the point I'm not sure you can complete a transaction without it.
On the other hand, you now have to give them your SSN #.
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If you sell on eBay, Paypal is heavily integrated, to the point I'm not sure you can complete a transaction without it.
I have recently purchased a number of things on ebay with 'buy it now' and giving my visa card number directly to ebay, in what looks like a very ordinary shopping cart checkout workflow, with no involvement of paypal. No login to paypal and no mention of it. The browser I was doing it from has never logged in to my paypal account and has no credentials cached for it.
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A lot of e-commerce sites will take PayPal these days. I like to use that vs giving my credit card information. Granted, I prefer to use things like Apple Pay but there are circumstances where PayPal is the only indirect payment form I have in common with a site
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