GitHub Sponsors Will Stop Supporting PayPal (github.blog) 24
"Starting on February 23, 2023, GitHub Sponsors will no longer support PayPal as a payments processor," the company announced today in a blog post. "As such, it will no longer be possible to sponsor individuals or organizations using PayPal." No details were given about what led to the decision.
If you are sponsoring anyone on the site using PayPal, GitHub says you'll need to "update your GitHub payment method to pay by credit or debit card."
If you are sponsoring anyone on the site using PayPal, GitHub says you'll need to "update your GitHub payment method to pay by credit or debit card."
No thanks... (Score:5, Insightful)
I use PayPal so that I don't have to give you direct access to my credit cards or bank accounts.
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And yet you give them to PayPal?
I use paypal because it is one place lots of people accept $ from. I do not want my Credit Card known by 20 different orgs.
Tin Foil hat time :) I almost wonder if Miscrsoft wnats to come out with something like Paypal. Apple already has one (Apple Pay).
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My tinfoil hat is the reason I've never used PayPal.
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I do not want my Credit Card known by 20 different orgs.
Commenter above has suggested you use a secondary number from your bank. You can generate any number of them, probably for free. You can generate single-use card numbers for vendors you don't want to come back to, or you can generate multiple-use card numbers for things like subscriptions. Each vendor can get a different number and they are iimted in both amount and time. Nobody knows your real numbers.
From a vendor point of view (at least in EU). I found that Paypal charges 0.5 eur + 3.49% of the purchase
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I almost wonder if Miscrsoft wnats to come out with something like Paypal
They should just buy it out right. I am sure Musk will appreciate the infusion of cash if would to get any from it.
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In additon to that, Paypal:
a) Shares your personal information with a considerable number of 3rd parties, 600+ (https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/03/the_600_compani.html)
b) Shares your personal information with the seller every time you make a purchase. This includes your email, name and address.
Re: No thanks... (Score:1)
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The thing is, with Paypal you do the transaction and it's done. If the company wants to pull money on a recurring basis they have to set it up with Paypal, and you c
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I use Paypal so I don't have to update my credit card details every few years.
Actually, that's not quite true. I have to update them in one place: Paypal. Still, that's much better than having to update them in 100 places I forget.
If credit cards want to match that, my bank will need to provide a central place listing all people who can debit my credit card or have it on file, so I can disable them when I choose.
No, me having to manually credit a new CC number for each vendor, then manually track who I've
Shades of Rakuten? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Citation needed.
I searched for this criminal activity by Rakuten. I gave up after 100 hits which were all positive. Where did you get this information? Did all the victims forget and fail to report it? I have read of many thefts by Paypall over decades, but never this.
Are you perchance a shill for PayPall? Show the evidence or shut up.
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I'm not sticking up for Paypal but if you're getting a lot of positive promotional google hits on something obscure then chances are that very entity has paid for their history to be buried, and maybe scrubbed too.
First step (Score:2)
Paypal needs to go the way Dinosaurs went. (Score:2)
I've been worried about using PayPal too (Score:2)
If they decide to "fine" one of my customers over a transaction they made on my site, could I be partially liable for that? I feel like it may be better to stick with more professional payment processors who won't steal money from my customers based on some kind of political agenda.