Cheers, my dude
Thx bruh
done. cheers for the tip.
Note that there are two similar options: “PayPal shopping” and “Personalized shopping”. The post mentions this but they’re similar enough that I kind of glossed over it and almost missed the Personalized one.
Same. I went back to see what else was in there and discovered the second one. Sneaky.
In the iOS app, it was Settings > My Profile > Data & Privacy
Thank you - this was genuinely helpful.
Legit question: why do people still use PayPal?
Sometimes, that’s the only way to send money internationally.
For me the only time is when it’s a subscription and I want to be able to cancel it easily especially for trials, since PayPal (to a degree) simplifies this
Because it’s accepted all over the internet and is the only way to pay on many websites.
It’s also a way to send money to friends, just like venmo and such. And just like venmo and such, has very few consumer protections or regulation.
The US doesn’t have a national or government system to freely send payments to other people - and no one uses checks anymore - so we all have to pick one of these equally awful private companies to use to send money and hope we don’t get scammed or have our account frozen and our money seized.
You expect me to bust out my actual debit card every time I make a purchase like the the Flintstones? lol hell naw, what next, send it via pigeon mail too?
If it don’t even got Google Pay or PayPal I just ain’t paying. If I have to type in a password ever, I’m not paying (thank god for autofill and fingerprint). If IRL, they don’t take contactless, over Google Pay ofc, I ain’t paying. Even the homeless got contactless readers now, capitalist bastards got no excuse.
Thankfully almost everything supports it now. I’ve not seen my card in years and I don’t even like, know if I still have it, nevermind a cash note.
Is there any reason to use PayPal vs a bank card, or a credit card, or Venmo or any other payment option?
I’ve had shops that either accept PayPal, or a bank transfer that they’ll manually process when they get to it.
No. You will get scammed with zero recourse.
Sometimes it’s the only option I can use online as I don’t have a credit card, only a direct debit/bank card. I’ll only use it if I have to though
Epic Store will throw errors when you try to use a credit card instead of PayPal.
So, no.
I will use PayPal when making purchases, mostly to keep from giving my payment information directly to yet another company that could handle it improperly.
Not to say that PayPal wouldn’t misuse the information too, but it’s one company that might misuse my information vs many companies, so I’ll go with the one.
Thank you. This got me to look into all the settings in privacy and I turned off quite a few things. Much appreciated
I fully expect PayPal to harvest and share the United States data anyway - regardless if you opt out - and they’ll get a slap on the wrist 5 years later when someone finds out about it.
This isn’t even in my settings for some reason
Setting doesn’t seem to exist for me. Does it not apply to Business Accounts?
Likewise, and also on a business account.
I’m unable to turn off this setting right now. Getting an error reported. I’m sure this is totally unrelated to people finding out about it and turning it off.
a timeless classic.
had the same problem with lufthansa where the refund form would lead to an error every time after filling it …for a whole week conveniently this happened after a strike created a lot of clear cases for refunds
obviously you have to apply for a refund for your non existent flight. it wont happen automatically
Typical, just like how half of unsubscribe links produce errors, or just 404.
Please log into your account to edit your email preferences.
Bitch, I did the guest checkout so I wouldn’t have to make an account. It’s never “faster” or “more convenient” to check out - my browser already has my details saved, I don’t need my credit card and personal info stored in yet another poorly secured database just waiting for the next breach and another free year of credit monitoring.
Take your accounts and mailing lists and fuck off already.
I run my own email server, so when I get unsolicited spam from a company, I’ve started creating server rules that forward emails from their spam address to their sales or support address, and then deletes the email from my server before ever getting delivered. I’m done playing their games, now they can play my games!
There is no such setting in my PayPal account. I’m not in the EU. There are only options for how people can find me, blocked contacts, request my data, correct my data, and delete my account.
I am extremely tired of this shit. Doing business with a company shouldn’t mean that every other business on the planet gets to know everything that said company has been wrongfully spying on me for.
I closed my account when that Uber marketing exec got hired by PayPal. This was inevitable.
i delete my account a while ago. fuck them.
