Good riddance!
Time for PayPal to die
GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
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Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
#12I wonder if PayPal did the old “Your account is locked and we’re keeping your money” thing to GitHub too, as they have too so many others.
Blows my mind that that's legal. If they lock your account they should be obliged to still show a form to withdraw to a bank account you own.
PayPal isn't a bank. It doesn't have depositors, just plain creditors. (Oversimplifying.) It should have to disclose this more thoroughly. But there is a legitimate niche for low-compliance deposit-like instruments in our financial system.
Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
#13Really GitHub, no details? That looks like something which could easily hugely decrease donations for _some_ people. (For many it probably won't be to big of a change given that most sponsors are likely either companies or well-earning IT people.)
My understanding (when I briefly looked into this about 5 years ago) is that Paypal doesn't support sending money for donations unless it's actual charitable donations - accepting 'donations' for an npm package is against paypal terms of service.
My guess is that Paypal finally got around telling github to stop accepting this.
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#14At least they cannot take your money as hostage anymore via GitHub because of their definition of what 'misinformation' is in their Terms of Service.
Good riddance.
Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
#15I wonder if PayPal did the old “Your account is locked and we’re keeping your money” thing to GitHub too, as they have too so many others.
Blows my mind that that's legal. If they lock your account they should be obliged to still show a form to withdraw to a bank account you own.
Most financial regulation enables payment providers to have unlimited period of account freeze even for the suspect of money laundering. Payment providers are legally shielded for any liability if they are concerned about money laundering. A mere abnormal transaction volume or a single transaction is enough for suspicion. The regulation is so single sided that any financial institution cannot even reply to your messages regarding such cases, as they have criminal liability on “tipping money launderers.”
PayPal just happens to be one of the most used online payment providers, being very trigger happy on this one due to pressure from regulators. This makes PayPal unideal for any businesses that deal with digital goods.
Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
#16Any details? They provided no reason in the post. Has there been recent drama with PayPal?
> Has there been recent drama with PayPal?
Not heard of anything directly involving GitHub but PayPal have created a huge amount of drama around updates to their terms of service: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/paypal_fine_disinform....
Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
#17I actually had no idea PayPal was still around, I figured it was dead years ago... it should be dead...
Re: GitHub Sponsors will stop supporting PayPal
#18I wonder if PayPal did the old “Your account is locked and we’re keeping your money” thing to GitHub too, as they have too so many others.
Blows my mind that that's legal. If they lock your account they should be obliged to still show a form to withdraw to a bank account you own.
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#19Microsoft + Stripe announcement incoming?
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