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PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by filleduchaos »

esskay wrote: post #17
hombre_fatal wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One click checkout vs filling in credit card info on yet another website. None of your issues apply to using PayPal as a form of payment; you don’t need to keep a balance at all.

Apple Pay, Google Pay, Amazon Pay, and various options across the world such as 'Link', iDEAL, Swish, etc. Paypal only still seems to be a major thing in the US where modern payment methods are still very much behind the rest of the world.

Ironically, PayPal is the only one of those services that actually works pretty much everywhere in the world.

But of course, when people on here say "the rest of the world" they typically just mean "Europe".

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by mghackerlady »

baobun wrote: post #19
dontlaugh wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you need to split a bill across people from many different countries, there aren’t other options.

Cash. Monero.

I wish more sites would accept cash

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by robin_reala »

Vasbarlog wrote: post #12
dontlaugh wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you need to split a bill across people from many different countries, there aren’t other options.

Revolut! There are also pretty high referral bonus (around 80 dollars per referral where I come from). You can ”charge” it using Apple Pay or Google Pay, and it’s very convenient.

I’ve never been able to consider Revolut since I read Wired’s article on their work practices: https://www.wired.com/story/revolut-trade-unions-labour-fint...

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by protimewaster »

general1465 wrote: post #30
j-bos wrote: post #16

That's disastrous, imagine getting cut off from financial services because of being an early adopter.

With PayPal you don't need to imagine, you will get cut off randomly just by using it. Oh you have triggered fraud detection, let's waste a week of your time talking to customer support.

I finally gave up on PayPal. Years ago, some hardware vendor had a discount for paying via PayPal. I made an account using my real personal info and personal payment cards, and they immediately flagged the account as fraudulent.

I put in a support request and, after some back and forth with support, they eventually, what I think was weeks later, marked the account as legitimate. At least, that's what they said they did. That promo was still going, so I tried it again. PayPal still wouldn't let me pay due to being flagged as fraud. In a follow-up with PayPal, they claimed it would take a few days before I could actually use the account. The promo expired at the end of that day, so I just deleted the account and decided PayPal is a waste of time.

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by ronsor »

inhumantsar wrote: post #27
OptionOfT wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They even query if the monitor is connected in a HDCP compliant way. There is a bug in either that process, my monitor, or the DP protocol. Sometimes when that detection happens, my monitor turns grey, which is what it's supposed to do when you play HDCP content over a non-HDCP link. But I'm not doing that. I'm just visiting a website.

I have Firefox set up to always ask for permission to play DRM protected content. This happens way more often than I ever expected. it seems that a lot of video ads have DRM. maybe that's what you're running into?

> a lot of video ads have DRM

They're putting in a lot of work to stop people from pirating their ads.

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by hulitu »

ronsor wrote: post #35
inhumantsar wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have Firefox set up to always ask for permission to play DRM protected content. This happens way more often than I ever expected. it seems that a lot of video ads have DRM. maybe that's what you're running into?

> a lot of video ads have DRM They're putting in a lot of work to stop people from pirating their ads.

Who would want to pirate ads ?

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by hulitu »

herbst wrote: post #3

PayPal is the only semi reliable payment method attached to my credit card that doesn't constantly fail payments on my desktop computer. Glad to hear that's going to change as well.

> Glad to hear that's going to change as well.

It changed a long time ago.

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by hulitu »

general1465 wrote: post #9

Why would anyone use PayPal at the first place? I have only negative experiences with them. Constant blocking, freezing account and then unfreezing it with no explanation why it was frozen in the first place just panacea "fraud detection", chargebacks months after the purchase.

> Why would anyone use PayPal at the first place?

> A lot of people do not have a negative impression of Paypal. They think it always works.

I, for myself, i read a lot of negative stuff about it: accounts blocked because of various reasons, people denied access to their money because of various reasons.

They are not treated as a bank so they evade financial regulations.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by chii »

tgma wrote: post #6

Probably tripping some client fingerprinting/fraud detection system because it thinks of it as an anomaly mistaking it for a bot or something. Unlikely to be intentional malice against Asahi users.

so the question is should fraud protection err on the side of too lenient, allowing _some_ fraud to go thru to ensure zero innocent users get marked?

Or should fraud protection err on the side of stringency, where all fraud gets caught, but at the cost of getting innocents blocked too (in some greater number)?

Re: PayPal bans Linux users with a GPU name containing the string "Apple M1"

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Post by shiroiuma »

general1465 wrote: post #9

Why would anyone use PayPal at the first place? I have only negative experiences with them. Constant blocking, freezing account and then unfreezing it with no explanation why it was frozen in the first place just panacea "fraud detection", chargebacks months after the purchase.

For small merchants, it's really easy and convenient for accepting credit card payments from customers. You don't needs sophisticated card-processing stuff on your end (you just send the invoice and redirect the customer to paypal.com), and the fees are (relatively) low and simple, unlike traditional credit card processors that are really geared for big customers. There just isn't much competition in this space, maybe Stripe.
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