GitHub Sponsors Will Stop Supporting PayPal

"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."

No thanks...

[dark.nebulae]

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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[Art Challenor]

And yet you give them to PayPal? You could ask your CC provider for a secondary number (no idea what this is called) that you can use for this type of transaction. If you've given PayPal access to your main bank account you may want to change that and create a PayPal (/github/whatever) only account that has limited funds for the day it's hacked.

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[jmccue]

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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[Darinbob]

My tinfoil hat is the reason I've never used PayPal.

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[test321]

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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[DarkRookie2]

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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[devslash0]

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...

[fbobraga]

It's called "virtual card" (at least, in my bank)

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[tlhIngan]

And yet you give them to PayPal? You could ask your CC provider for a secondary number (no idea what this is called) that you can use for this type of transaction. If you've given PayPal access to your main bank account you may want to change that and create a PayPal (/github/whatever) only account that has limited funds for the day it's hacked.

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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[ras]

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?

[BenJeremy]

After Buy.com got bought out and became Rakuten, people started noticing a few odd things about the site: 1. CC#s were being leaked to the internet shortly after using Rakuten to buy things with those credit cards...and 2. Rakuten (never acknowledging the problem) was actively encouraging customers to use credit cards over PayPal with discounts. What's more interesting is that even using "Virtual" CC# services, their credit cards were getting leaked... and it eventually came out that big vendors CAN and DO request the original credit card numbers and get them. In many suspected cases, the credit card was used for nothing else recently except the transaction with Rakuten - in at least one case, it was a brand new card, never used anywhere else - and in every case, false charges appeared within one or two days. So yes, I've used PayPal for quite a long time without issues. It's my primary debit card for daily brick and mortar purchases (using my bank account) - which is handy if that card IS compromised, because I have more options and I still have my original bank debit card for whatever I need until my new card comes in. I find it odd that Github is actively dumping PayPal without an explaination.

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[swell]

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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[evanh]

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

[ClueHammer]

Before Microsoft (owner of github) launch msmoney.

Paypal needs to go the way Dinosaurs went.

[bumblebees]

They need to go already for so many reasons. They qÃare stuck in the past without will to renew or inovate.

I've been worried about using PayPal too

[mosb1000]

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.