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.
I closed my account when that Uber marketing exec got hired by PayPal. This was inevitable.
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.
Typical, just like how half of unsubscribe links produce errors, or just 404.
Setting doesn’t seem to exist for me. Does it not apply to Business Accounts?
Likewise, and also on a business account.
Thank you. This got me to look into all the settings in privacy and I turned off quite a few things. Much appreciated
In the iOS app, it was Settings > My Profile > Data & Privacy
Thank you - this was genuinely helpful.
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.
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.
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’ve had shops that either accept PayPal, or a bank transfer that they’ll manually process when they get to it.
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
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.
Epic Store will throw errors when you try to use a credit card instead of PayPal.
So, no.
No. You will get scammed with zero recourse.
done. cheers for the tip.
Cheers, my dude
Thx bruh
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.
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.
Sometimes, that’s the only way to send money internationally.
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
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.
