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🖕 Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

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[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

LTT… toilet flushing! I had no expectations of paypal. To my shame I used them in the past,but deleted my account after reading how scummy they are. fuck paypal and anything affiliated with them.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mid this year they also started sharing transaction data without consent...

Delete that account

[–] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 points 3 months ago

Oh, I deleted it like 1 year ago. it was probably slightly more reputable back then. it does make it easier in some cases to have a centralised way of handling payments, but I’d rather struggle with inserting my cards each time.