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I wanted to close my Paypal account just now and they have very dark patterns going on. I wanted to send the remainder of my balance to my bank account, in order to do so I had to couple my bank 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…
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Cryptocurrency doesn't change any of those factors, it just makes processing fees and currency instability orders of magnitudes higher.
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've seen that PayPal's support, APIs, documentation, etc., is substandard. Downtime events are frequent. Getting in touch with a human is impossible.
their one benefit - ubiquity - isn't even earned. no, they were just early to the scene 20 years ago, then held their nerve until about 2010 after which the major online players pretty much haven't changed. fuck the current online eco[nomic]-system. the network effects of familiarity nearly always trump competence or quality
my advice: never ever have money in your account. it's just too tempting for them. if you're taking payments, auto-transfer them out. if you use it pay for things, use it via a card. since I realised this, I've not once had to unlock my account, no unsolicited two-factor, not even a dodgy notification. it's almost like they have nothing to gain from locking it anymore :o
I wanted to close my Paypal account just now and they have very dark patterns going on. I wanted to send the remainder of my balance to my bank account, in order to do so I had to couple my bank 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…
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've seen that PayPal's support, APIs, documentation, etc., is substandard. Downtime events are frequent. Getting in touch with a human is impossible.
I wanted to close my Paypal account just now and they have very dark patterns going on. I wanted to send the remainder of my balance to my bank account, in order to do so I had to couple my bank 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…
So you could totally transfer without coupling... the real problem was you didn't know your bank account number?
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No it doesn't. Sites like Github and Patreon can pick and choose which cryptocurrencies they want to support just like they choose which payment processors they support. And creators can choose to take donations directly today using whatever payment processor they choose, but creators and donors choose to use the middlemen because they provide value. Cryptocurrency doesn't change any of those factors, it just makes p…
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.
Any 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... .