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A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Venmo/ Paypal Alternatives (kbin.run)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Atelopus-zeteki@kbin.run to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I've long been annoyed that everyone, including myself uses Paypal/ Venmo for moving money around. What alternatives do you find useful? Here's a list (https://alternativeto.net/software/venmo/). GNU Taler looks viable (https://taler.net/en/index.html). I would love to have your thoughts!

Edit: Thanks for everyone's input. I really appreciate it. <3

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[–] Asudox@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

GNU Taler would be the future privacy-focused alternative if you live in europe. Only if EU sees the potential it has and decides to use it for the upcoming digital euro, that is. For now, you can either use cash irl and monero online. The privacy GNU Taler provides in an online state is between normal card payments and cash, while offline usage is close to cash.

Digital euro: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/euro/digital_euro/html/index.en.html

GNU Taler: https://taler.net/en/