You morons. Visa and mastercard are doing you a favor. Who would pay an anonymizing service with credit card?!
VPNs aren't just used for anonymizing, connecting to public/untrusted WiFi for example.
Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers
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#112This is a danger in privatized money, which credit cards are essentially becoming.
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#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Keep in mind that this is about chargeback risk, First, I do not think this is about chargebacks, at all. I don't know what it is about, but it's not chargebacks. This looks like a blanket revocation of anonymizing/VPN services. That isn't how fraud/risk engines work (note: I wrote several fraud/risk engines for ecommerce/banking/travel industry as well as passive device fingerprinting). Sure, make this a riskier t…
> I can't think of a single thing that is legal to buy that is blanket revoked by some company like this. Firearms. https://www.paypal.com/webapps/helpcenter/article/?solutionI... https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/about?nodeId=6023 https://squareup.com/legal/seller-agreement Also, at least two of those have prohibitions on "occult materials". I'm not quite sure what that means, but it doesn't sound illegal.
I checked with Simplify (the MC Stripe clone), and they're cool with firearms and accessories sold online, and firearms sold in-person with card swiped. They're going to get back to me on whether an FFL could sell online MOTO -- I'm pushing them to allow it IFF the FFL ships to another FFL, which is federal law anyway.)