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German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

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Re: German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

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How is the Wirecard investigation going? They'll get overwhelmed with the workload...

Ah the good old whataboutism.

(Wirecard is being investigated by relevant authorities, but unrelated to cartel office looking at others)

Re: German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

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I love PayPal. It might be another be-evil type corporation. But it is just sooo convenient. I am just curious if there is some alternative to it in Germany. I don’t want to give my bank account number to every random online shop. Credit card yes, but I am too lazy for entering the numbers every time.

Edit: I am not kenn on saving my credit card number somewhere digitally. Browser, password manager or a text file are not my preferred options.

Re: German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

#7

How is the Wirecard investigation going? They'll get overwhelmed with the workload...

The criminal investigation has been finished, Markus Braun and others have been sitting on trial since last December [1]. The political investigation by a special parliamentary committee has also been finished since mid 2021 [2].

The only one still running free is Jan Marsalek, probably he's being protected by Russia.

[1] https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/wirecard-markus-braun-p...

[2] https://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2021/kw25-de-3...

Re: German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

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post #6

I love PayPal. It might be another be-evil type corporation. But it is just sooo convenient. I am just curious if there is some alternative to it in Germany. I don’t want to give my bank account number to every random online shop. Credit card yes, but I am too lazy for entering the numbers every time. Edit: I am not kenn on saving my credit card number somewhere digitally. Browser, password manager or a text file are…

Having to enter my card details have often stopped me from doing unnecessary purchase. That being said I memorised most of my cards and it takes not much longer for me to fill in a card payment form than log in to PP.

Re: German cartel office initiates proceedings against PayPal

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How is the Wirecard investigation going? They'll get overwhelmed with the workload...

There have been zero repercussions for government officials, yearning for a software giant in the GigantFAMily. And the fraudster swarms know that the honeydew of hope is still dripping, though hurt by reality not giving way.

Germany just cant get its stuff together softwarewise.

Would be better off, to subsidize die polish/chechoslovakian software giants and have them grow into germany. They are doing something right over there.

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