#idk I'm not mad at anyone who likes or uses PayPal but it's gotta stop being handed a de facto monopoly

[prince-steele]

we have to stop using PayPal as a payment service and I'm genuinely not fucking joking. it's an actual SCAM that is only popular because some large companies adopted it as an option, and then sold it as the defacto option.

there's a bunch of different, other payment options like revolut, cashapp, and stripe that work better and aren't actually predatory on your wallet, and that actually, y'know, WORK as intended. I personally love revolut and find it works for everything I need it to do, stripe is also good but honestly anything other than paypal is preferable.

because, not only did they facilitate scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars out of people with the paypal honey scam, not only did paypal mastercard have a horrific and damaging impact on sex workers and the adult artist sphere, not only does the app just not fucking work as intended... paypal also holds your money hostage for indeterminate amounts of time, and takes a ridiculous cut just as an extra fuck you.

stop using paypal if you can and start diversifying your options because it truly is not a good enough service to justify how ubiquitous it is.