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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.
What is an actual charitable donation?
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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.
What is an actual charitable donation?
I 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.
I 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.
On a related note, if you add a comment like “Cuba Russia China you need better fraud detection” to a Venmo payment they will freeze your transaction for a couple of days. I’m sure the same is true for PayPal.
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}I 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.
Unlikely, since this is a full one-month notice period for the GitHub Sponsors change. They wouldn't have that option if PayPal had locked the GitHub Sponsors PayPal account.
>They wouldn't have that option if PayPal had locked the GitHub Sponsors PayPal account.
Does that lock any incoming money or just taking the money out of the account ?
It directly presented me with the info that if I were to couple the account, Paypal will have 90 days of access to my balance and all my transactions. How about no.
Luckily there was a link on the bottom “link it in a different way”, when following this path (By manually entering my IBAN*) Paypal only stated I could then “easily transfer funds back and forth”. Sounded good, until my bank app opened again and stated that if I was pressing the ‘accept’ button, you guessed it, Paypal will have 90 days of access to my balance and all my transactions. This time I pressed ‘cancel’ and thought “I’ll just buy something random and donate the last Paypal cent I own to some random charity”. Got an error message after pressing ‘cancel’ in my bank app, but curiosity got the best of me, I refreshed the Bank Accounts page and there it was, my bank account number. I was able to transfer to it without coupling after all.
Once the funds are on my bank account I will avoid and evangelise avoiding Paypal.
Guess I won't be able to sponsor anyone anymore. I guess as a US based company they are expecting everyone to just have a credit card.
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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 messa…
What is the official way that someone whose account is wrongfully frozen is supposed to get their money back? There has to be some answer, at least for US citizens or foreigners in the US whose assets are wrongfully frozen due to the effects of US law... every civil or criminal forfeiture law in the US provides some way for the property owner to challenge the seizure, usually involving filing or defending some kind o…
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On a related note, if you add a comment like “Cuba Russia China you need better fraud detection” to a Venmo payment they will freeze your transaction for a couple of days. I’m sure the same is true for PayPal.
I saw something similar in a home-grown "antivirus": if (file.getName().contains("trojan")) { antivirus.flag("malware"); }