• coffeeCleanOP
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    8 months ago

    As for PayPal, well, your cc / bank also shares lots of data.

    Paypal is not a bank. Paypal is an additional MitM. Using Paypal adds another surveillance capitalist to the chain along with your bank and credit network. But indeed, the banks and credit cards are shit so I am fighting the war on cash quite hard. I’ve already been dragged into court for insisting on paying a creditor in cash. I won that case and will continue insisting on cash payments.

    If your threat modelling is that severe

    My threat model simply includes mass surveillance. Which is in the threat model of everyone who understands and embraces privacy. It’s worth noting that it’s not purely and infosec stance. I also object to feeding a supplier who is acting against me. The moment I detect that a supplier is working against me, I walk on ethical grounds. They have failed to earn my business. The snooping just happens to be the manner in which they are working against me.

    your best bet is Tor Craigslist,

    I was doing that at one time but something pushed me off. I don’t recall what… whether it was SMS verify or CAPTCHAs or phone numbers or fussy email address verifiers… something drove me off.

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      8 months ago

      Can’t help you there. Buying stuff isn’t anonymous, even brick and mortar stores have cloud surveillance cams now.

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        8 months ago

        Most of my shopping is done at street markets. When a big parking is filled with vans and portable tables on a weekly basis, there is no surveillance. But if I need something very particular then the cash option gets threatened. E.g. I would like to have a Flipper Zero but these are never at street markets and not even on any shelves anywhere.

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          I have a Flipper Zero (and case and the extra components) that I’ll 99.99% likely never use. I’d love to get cash for it but I’d be asking twice what it’s worth because I like having it on ‘what if’ grounds.

          But I feel you, it’s unfortunate about the state of things. The EU just banned privacy coins. US is soon coming I’m sure. They won’t allow people to legally use them after the release of a central bank coin.