Welcome to the club :P
Not surprising coming from PayPal, elementary OS should really just move away from them. Fun fact: If their PayPal account was banned that means all recent donators that sent them money through PayPal were also banned/had their accounts frozen.
I used to use PayPal maybe 15-20 years ago and used to donate to FOSS projects with it. At one point PayPal decided I was being shady and banned my account. At the time figured it was just my own problem but later on I heard from one of those FOSS projects, turned out that their own PayPal account was banned in the process due to receiving money from a banned account.
elementary OS should really just move away from them
To where?
They have and continue to accept Liberapay.
AFAIK Liberapay uses Stripe and PayPal as their payment processor.
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Maybe IBAN/SWIFT
Crypto?
AFAIK, getting actual money into and more importantly, out of Crypto, to pay for things like food, not to mention picking one, is “non-trivial”.
As for IBAN/SWIFT, that’s like publishing your bank account details online which has a whole lot of other risks associated with it, least of which is people supplying your details to a charity of their choice.
AFAIK, getting actual money into and more importantly, out of Crypto, to pay for things like food, not to mention picking one, is “non-trivial”.
Yes, but it is achievable. Routing around financial censorship is one of the things crypto is good at, because the rest of the financial system is designed to support people being cut off from its use at the whims of payment providers and governments.
Monero.
Hate Paypal, crappy service
Did they end up on a US terrorism list for offering free things like filthy communists?
Offering free things TO filthy communists. Which makes them filthy by association. Everyone knows you can’t let communists have any help, otherwise how would we know it doesn’t work?
I think OC mostly does payments with PayPal. But at least they have other options.
It’s crazy how many services are just thin skin apps with PayPal in the bg
Edit: looks like librapay is also paypal. But they also offer stripe as an alternative.
But neither OC nor LP are alternatives to PayPal. I mean neither are payment processors. They’re both dependent on other payment processors.
We need a real PayPal alternative, in addition to crypto
My paypal account was forcibly closed for no given reason. I still don’t know why.
I had my paypal account deleted back in 2011 due to the wikileaks witch hunt at that time. Paypal was withholding money going from a crowdfunding campaign to Julian Assange. In hindsight, that should’ve been Europe’s wake-up call, but of course, who could’ve seen the looming cliff behind a handsome fella like Obama.
I don’t understand how anyone uses PayPal.
All my old accounts were banned years ago. I tried to create replacement accounts, and they got a message that my account was deleted literally before I was able to login for the first time.
I literally was banned before I even had the ability to violate their ToS. It’s just false positive nonsense
