Closed mine and I've had a Paypal since the early 2000s. It was the only choice back then but places like Steam offer a direct card service these days, bypassing the need for Paypal.
If they want to do something like fine me for something they find bad, then I'm not using them as a service, simple as that.
Same! And the crazy thing is they haven't even addressed it on social media and refuse to reply to comments asking them about it. They are hoping it will just all blow over...fuckers.
They're hoping that when the same policy magically appears in their TOS in six months' time, only with slightly more ambiguous wording, that everyone will have moved on and nobody will notice.
Closed mine ages ago and yet I still get emails every day/week about how "My paypal account has been compromised!" in the forms of phishing. It's just a massive scam these days one way or another.
I'm a gun enthusiast. PayPal has been on my shitlist ever since they went full on fascist on firearms with the accounts of Federal Firearms License holders. PayPal froze accounts with five digit balances because suddenly implements a no firearms policy.
This was 2003.
Yes, PayPal has been pulling this kid of bullshit for near on 20 years.
I closed the first PP account I had opened in 2000 because of this crap. I refused to have anything to do with them for five years afterwards. I only opened another account with them because in 2008 I wanted to sell some stuff on eBay.
That account is now closed, too, I closed it as soon as word about this broke.
As convenient as they are, they are manifestly hostile to dissident voices, and capricious with their rules. As such, they cannot be trusted, and must be considered off limits.
There are alternatives now, Gab Pay and Parallel Economy, which did not exist in 2003. Of the two, I would say Gab Pay is more resilient, as Gab has already gone through de-banking and being black listed by Visa and MasterCard, and has found ways around that. I doubt Parallel Economy will survive such an attack.
Closed mine and I've had a Paypal since the early 2000s. It was the only choice back then but places like Steam offer a direct card service these days, bypassing the need for Paypal.
If they want to do something like fine me for something they find bad, then I'm not using them as a service, simple as that.
Same! And the crazy thing is they haven't even addressed it on social media and refuse to reply to comments asking them about it. They are hoping it will just all blow over...fuckers.
They're hoping that when the same policy magically appears in their TOS in six months' time, only with slightly more ambiguous wording, that everyone will have moved on and nobody will notice.
Closed mine ages ago and yet I still get emails every day/week about how "My paypal account has been compromised!" in the forms of phishing. It's just a massive scam these days one way or another.
This is why I don't store credit card information in their wallet storefronts.
A hacker can't use it if the data doesn't exist.
Steam, Amazon, my storage rental, they all want to "save your card for better convenience!" ... Uh ... no, thanks.
It should be illegal, same as password info. All the convenience features are there to screw you eventually
Same
I'm a gun enthusiast. PayPal has been on my shitlist ever since they went full on fascist on firearms with the accounts of Federal Firearms License holders. PayPal froze accounts with five digit balances because suddenly implements a no firearms policy.
This was 2003.
Yes, PayPal has been pulling this kid of bullshit for near on 20 years.
I closed the first PP account I had opened in 2000 because of this crap. I refused to have anything to do with them for five years afterwards. I only opened another account with them because in 2008 I wanted to sell some stuff on eBay.
That account is now closed, too, I closed it as soon as word about this broke.
As convenient as they are, they are manifestly hostile to dissident voices, and capricious with their rules. As such, they cannot be trusted, and must be considered off limits.
There are alternatives now, Gab Pay and Parallel Economy, which did not exist in 2003. Of the two, I would say Gab Pay is more resilient, as Gab has already gone through de-banking and being black listed by Visa and MasterCard, and has found ways around that. I doubt Parallel Economy will survive such an attack.
Same