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Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

PayPal was acquired by Ebay for 1.5 billion in stock. Group that benefitted from that transactionmost already included musk, thiel, etc. They are intrinsically tired together forever. You also see PayPal as an option for all transactions in eBay, the very recent addition of alternative options, after decades of socializing people on PayPal as the default option doesn’t change much.

Imagine your side of this “argument” being the hill someone dies on… I sure hope you’re a bot, because otherwise you seem a pretty sad, confused human

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CidVicious@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
You mention that PayPal was bought by eBay (in 2002) but not that it was spun off again in 2015. They’re separate companies. If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.

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- Snapz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.
  
  PayPal… owns Venmo?
  
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  - sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    Correcting misinformation isn’t defense of the entities involved. You can hate eBay (or any entity) and correct misinformation about them. There’s no conflict there.
    
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- frog_brawler@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  
  If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal
  
  Yes, just like how Coke is a competitor to Diet Coke and Sprite.
  
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