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.
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Typical, just like how half of unsubscribe links produce errors, or just 404.
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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!
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
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.
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.
In the iOS app, it was Settings > My Profile > Data & Privacy
Thank you - this was genuinely helpful.
done. cheers for the tip.
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.
Thank you. This got me to look into all the settings in privacy and I turned off quite a few things. Much appreciated
Cheers, my dude
I closed my account when that Uber marketing exec got hired by PayPal. This was inevitable.
Setting doesn't seem to exist for me. Does it not apply to Business Accounts?
Likewise, and also on a business account.
Thx bruh
This isn't even in my settings for some reason
Is there any reason to use PayPal vs a bank card, or a credit card, or Venmo or any other payment option?
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.
In Poland there is a payment system called blik, and it's not a company, but more like a protocol iirc. The blik provider is literally your bank, so no external platform to give your info to. Although, I'm not sure whether it doesn't share your payment information, since I don't really know how it works internally.
Epic Store will throw errors when you try to use a credit card instead of PayPal.
So, no.
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
No. You will get scammed with zero recourse.
I've had shops that either accept PayPal, or a bank transfer that they'll manually process when they get to it.
Good news if you are a resident of California, Vermont, or North Dakota:
we need to first obtain your consent before we share your nonpublic personal information for this purpose and to allow you to benefit from this service. This Supplemental Privacy Notice provides additional information about this data sharing and how you can consent to such sharing.
My "Personalized Shopping" setting was unchecked.
Another reminder that your state and local elections matter more than the federal to your daily lives.
Is that true even if trump is reelected?
Even more so, yes. I will be mostly fine in California even if Trump is elected, in all likelihood. The worst things about Trump's presidency were not felt here but seen in other states.
Obviously Trump is a huge threat to federalism in general and democracy at the federal level, but they can only do so much to the states and cities.
Where would you rather live under a trump presidency? Los Angeles or Orlando? Seattle or Nashville? Philadelphia or Little Rock? Even Austin, a very blue city, is prevented from doing a lot of good by the state of Texas.
i deleted my account a while ago. fuck them.
Legit question: why do people still use PayPal?
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.
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
Sometimes, that's the only way to send money internationally.
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.
Thanks for this!
I'm in the US so I had the personalized shopping setting, but with how the initial message is written saying the US won't have the settings I'm not sure if I'm missing something or not.
Business account owner here, can I opt out?
According to what I read on another site:
If your PayPal is officially a "business" account rather than a "personal" account, this doesn't apply.