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In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I'm in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.
UK here and they are turned on.
Thanks a lot, Brexit :(
they are turned on
Ooh, violate my privacy, daddy.
Even if the UK is not in the EU the GDPR still applies there, just the version it got while it was in the EU tho, no revisions
Spain here, and both were turned on by default. Had to deactivate.
Same in Germany
Just checked it on three different accounts (germany) and each one had those two options turned on.
Mine was already opted-out.
Ireland here, so EU, and both were turned on.
Is your account location set in GB?
Mine is in Germany and opted out. But I think remembering that there was already a post quite some time ago about the same thing.
Address is Ireland. No location set in the location section (under name in profile section), but my address is clearly set.
Also based in the EU, and mine were turned on
What if I told you this option doesn't actually get respected?
Then, hopefully, PayPal can look forward to spending at the very least 2% of their worldwide revenue to pay fines.
Thanks, i was thinking id need to go check them later today and that it was kinda illegal. Now i can be rest assured its fiiine
Remember, you may not see this at all if you're based in a country that doesn't allow it.
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Ah so now they're a poor steward of my data as well as my money?
Yea, paypal is bad news all around
I guess most people don't know most banks have electronic funds transfer, or virtual credit cards, etc.
I know about all of those. But so many websites only accept PayPal - especially small businesses. There's a bunch of regulatory hurdles a website doesn't have to worry about if they just have PayPal take care of everything related to payment.
Paypal needs to be deleted
I can't believe we don't have anything to actually compete with it
Just disabled. Thanks for the heads up.
In the app, under Data and Privacy:
Let us share products, offers and rewards you might like to help stores personalize your shopping.
This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.
They also like to just hold onto large chunks of money arbitrarily.
Oh, you're going to take it up with customer support?
Lololol.
I don't even see this option on my account. Old Canadian account, but my phone/Paypal app is EU.
Nor I, on my in-Canada account. Desktop access only; I don't have the Paypal app installed on my phone.
The article's image shows, under Manage your privacy settings, the options:
Permissions you've given
Interest-based marketing (which is the option pertinent to this issue)
Blocked contacts
But my account's options are:
Permissions you've given
Manage your cookies
Blocked contacts
Possibly the Marketing checkbox is the Canadian version of this? I've got that checkbox turned off.
Same account options as yours here on mobile, marketing is also off for me.
Thanks for comparing notes!
Cool, they banned my account some years ago and nothing of value was lost. And I don't think I even did anything to violate their rules, I only used it to pay rent for a few years and a handful of eBay purchases. My best guess is that someone "hacked" my account (my PW was pretty bad and in multiple breaches), but I tried logging in after years of not using it and couldn't do anything with it.
But yeah, nothing of value was lost. I haven't needed PayPal for years and don't need it now. Just say no and pay directly on whatever site you're buying at. I've bought tons of stuff from eBay and other online sites for years and it has never been an issue.
So screw 'em, just don't use their service.
Good thing I deleted my PayPal years ago over a previous TOS change.
What do you use instead?
Just standard credit card processing for purchases and zelle or venmo for transfers.
Crypto. Works great for everything I previously used PayPal for
I had a crypto phase. I know the entire ecosystem. Banking? Only if you can trust the backwards literal "who knows" entities you're dealing with. Should I bring up Celsius or FTX?
The only reputable one I'd even begin to consider would maybe investing in a BTC ETF, at least then you're clear of transaction fees and you get the same benefit of following the price as you would a Gold or oil fund and you don't have to touch the poison directly. Ether and Base are going to get absolutely destroyed if Kamala wins and won't fair much better than a flatline if Trump does, and you can wave goodbye to Arbitrum and Avax since the US isn't going to give a shit about an outside entity.
In a perfect world, we'd have a modernized version of BTC that isn't mineable, that's limited in volume, inexpensive to upkeep, cheap to transfer and usable as a universal currency, but humanity always gets in the way, either in adoption, distrust, greed or shortsightedness. Either the entity developing it gets high and mighty or everyone holding it becomes an influencer, or it turns out it isn't as eco friendly as you thought it was and the datacenter is on fire...
None of this even touches Brazil blocking X, which is the bulk of the memecoin universe aside from India, and Telegram getting shaky, influencers moving away from crypto and into marketing schemes...
You're running out of scams.
BTC ETF is a sad state of affairs and has nothing to do with replacing PayPal. I'm talking about strictly using crypto to pay for work or services (i.e. I only pay people online in crypto, I only pay for my DNS/VPN/etc in crypto)
Dunno if they re-did something because I remember a post about something something paypal and privacy. Looked at it right now and it was already disabled
Maybe it's by default opt-out for EU-members?
Location: Germany (EU)
Mine was off, don't know if it's because I'm in California, but I toggled it back and forth to check and left it off.
Good post. Just turned it off. I appreciate the heads up.
Thanks, disabled. If they want this kind of info then give users a reward for it like 1-2% cashback or coupons. This is just greedy.
Glad I deleted PayPal ages ago.
