Again I'm calling with #PayPal and the suckers keep saying this is totally normal :flan_laugh:
Getting locked out your account is part of te process now
Another guy just told me it was my fault because I was using the PayPal iOS app and that should only be done for "checking real quick" not daily use :nkoFacepalm2:
On the web interface PayPal just introduced a new dark pattern #enshittification to the transfer-balance-to-bank-account process to trick the user into electing the premium and quite expensive "immediate transfer" option, instead of choosing the free 1-3 day option.
When you initiate a transfer, this is now what shows up:
Wow whee - just got an email from #PayPal to say that my #LastFM yearly subscription price changed from $30 to $50.
Crazy stuff. I get that inflation is a thing; but the site is entirely user contributed data - from the scrobbling of the tracks to editing data and uploading images and links in the database.
And they sell that data to other companies. And haven’t updated their website or apps in so, so, long. The whole thing is pretty much in maintenance mode.
Because of the recent events on #Habitica I've created a #Liberapay page to get some support to fix what will happen on August 8th.
My plan is to create an advanced chat for the uotpify.org community (~5,000 people) and to keep providing high quality challenges on Habitica. More information on the Liberapay page: https://liberapay.com/utopify.org
This will be a lot of work and I hope for some #support
I provide challenges for about 6 years on Habitica for free, but it took a lot of time to write programs automating a lot of work (anti-cheat), scanning the chat for challenge participants, processing challenge data and creating high score lists, announcing new challenges, winners of challenges, etc. Now, that chats and guilds will be removed on Habitica, there will be even more work and the motivation is not really high, if a company destroys it within a week what you built up over several years.
Liberapay was the only solution I found, which is #foss and fits the values for what utopify stands for. If you know others/better, please name them.
I appreciate every Cent and thank you for your support 🙏
My problem with money donations are always, that not trustworthy companies have to be used. Currently I use #paypal, but #stripe is supported by Liberapay, too.
Is it necessary to have a Stripe account or is PayPal enough? Because reading the privacy policy of them makes me a little bit dizzy and if it can be avoided, I really want to avoid it. But if people will say, they want to donate, but only with Stripe, I would create a Stripe account.
I'm setting up print sales on my site, using WooCommerce and PayPal. PayPal sets cookies when people visit my site (not just when using checkout) but I don't want it to.
How do I block PayPal from setting cookies on visitors' devices? I'm guessing there are a few lines of code somewhere that I need to delete or comment out?
I tried using my site's cart and checkout (still hidden at the moment) with all cookies blocked in Firefox and it seemed to work fine, so it doesn't seem like this is necessary for the checkout to function, but is just PayPal being creepy.
Can someone tell me why #Paypal is putting holds on #donations received? I don't know much about this. It's adding unnecessary stress atop. I don't know why funds are on hold??? WTF?
Which one accepts direct #SEPA bank transfer without need to go through 3rd party, such as #Stripe or, worse, #PayPal? Which one is community friendly. Which one respects donators #privacy?
hello, a tumblr friend of mine urgently needs help. she needs to raise $800 in two weeks or else she'll get evicted. post contains #venmo#cashapp and #paypal links. please boost and share as much as you can.
Wie Sie sich gegen Postleitzahl-Betrug bei PayPal wehren
Cyberkriminelle nutzen die kleinen Einschränkungen in der Adresskontrolle des Paypal-Käuferschutzes, um Käuferschutzverfahren gegen ihre Opfer zu gewinnen.
I regularly use PayPal to send money to myself (transferring from one bank to another). I just did my monthly transfer, and something new on the UI: under my chosen funding source (my bank acct) was "Backup: credit card ending XYZZ."
Well THAT'S terrifying: the PayPal fee alone would be about $100 bucks, plus that card would charge me ~$160 for the cash advance.
#TIL that not only was Melon Husk not a co-founder of Tesla (which I already knew), but he was also not a co-founder of PayPal. He had to buy the X.com domain off PayPal, because the original X.com was failing under his leadership, and merged with another company in a desperate attempt to stay alive. The merged company also failed under his leadership, so he was fired. Peter Thiel took over, and the company was rebranded PayPal. The rest is history.
🤣😂🤣 #ElonMusk wants me to replace my bank with #X / #Twitter, the latter tolerates terrorists & Nazis‽
For years I have used #ApplePay & #PayPal for transactions, & I do not trust them to be my bank. Why would I give over my money to a company who tolerates psychos‽
Puh. #Paypal droht mir damit, mein Konto zu schließen, weil ich einem Freund 15 Euro für eine Flasche Havana Club erstatten wollte und "Danke für den Havana" als Kommentar drunter geschrieben habe.
"Uns ist aufgefallen, dass Sie PayPal als Zahlungsmethode für den Verkauf von Artikeln bewerben, die möglicherweise aus Cuba stammen."
Brilliant! #PayPal now uses #HCaptcha too! SO I now can't log into it because no matter what you change the cookie will just not set, and they don't enable the text option. I apparently now need to switch to stripe to accept payments, I'm being locked out of a business account here because of this bullshit!
Hey Fedi friends! It's the end of the month again which means it's time for a new mutual aid request. (This ended up being a little longer than I expected but bare with me! CashApp & PayPal links at the end! :floof_Heart:)
To try and keep this short and since many of the folks who have known me or seen me around the Fediverse know or have an idea of what the current situation is like.
I'm a minor with no source of income outside of coding which does not bring nearly enough in for me to even buy lunch most months so I have to resort to mutual aids or theft (Which got me in a lot of legal trouble, but fuck the corporates.). I need at least enough fundings to support me (Age 16, turning 17 this year) and my younger sibling (age 15).
I am a high school student living in a crappy situation with divorced parents. Where one house, the main house, I am refused basic needs such as, but not limited to, food, water, hygiene, clothing, proper medical care, etc. While the other house, my mothers, is a hoarder mess with little to no food, and when there is non expired food that has not been gotten into by animals, months, mold, maggots, etc, it is often times one of the following: Chocolate, cookies, Twinkies, hostess foods, etc. My mother hoards much more than just garbage but indeed, animals also. (With over 70 animals in the house and dogs who are not potty trained along with more animals, outside of the house).
Neither houses include proper medical care. I have a chronic skin disease that causes me severe pain and if it gets bad enough, it becomes an open wound that tunnels often times on my chest or on my legs. My parents do not supply the proper medications I need for these, and when asked or mentioned needing the medications, I get told "Get a job". (Which I am also not allowed to have.)
I'm constantly at risk of being kicked out of the house at any time without warning, a couple of months ago I was locked out of the house in regards to being trans and using my chosen name tho thankfully this was after a school play and I had a safe place at the time.
CPS does not listen. The cops do not listen. I cannot speak up about any of these issues even to trusted adults as this causes more issues at home and gets CPS involved.
Cost breakdowns for the month! Any extra fundings will be put towards getting my parrot a new urn (His last one unfortunately broke).
MEDICATIONS: $50 (4x meds for chronic disease (3 prescription + 1 one reg), anxiety/insomnia meds, pain killers)
CAT FOOD: $20
TOTAL: $500
NOT URGENT BUT STILL NEEDED: I will be doing commissions in regards to funding for this stuff, it might take a little bit but I'll do it o7
URN REPLACEMENT: $160 (I know this is expensive but it was the cheapest urn I could find that was made with a decent quality that would work better for traveling with him, as this bird means a lot to me, even in death. If you've known or seen me around within my past year and a half ish on Fedi you'd know how much my beloved Leo was worth to me<3)
(We attempted to fix the urn but it didn't work very well as it proceeded to keep breaking and at this point it's cheaper just to replace it)
LAPTOP FIX: $20
(Keyboard had an incident where one of the keys broke and need to be replaced, this was a rough estimate on the price it should cost from a friend. - The laptop doesn't have a warranty 😹 but I need this for personal use + school + studies)