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ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Those are all payment processors generally in Europe (Eastern Europe) which are most likely the easiest that tie to their bank. Trying to use PayPal with foreign (to the US) bank accounts can be much harder to set up.
JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Thank you.
I’m indeed living in the USA at this time.
In which case, do you have any thoughts about how I might make a donation to this instance? TBH I’m a bit scared about giving out my credit / debit card info, so I tend to err on the side of extreme caution.
Just set up an acct with one of those four agencies, I imagine?
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
You might be able to do that. If you’re erring on the side of caution, you might want to see if you can generate a virtual card number with your credit card provider so that you don’t give your actual number. Also, for the love of all things, do not tie your main debit card to it. If something happens, they can clean you out and you have much less recourse than with a credit card. Just note that credit cards may charge a cash advance fee on top of it. Depends on the sliding scale of risk vs extra cost.
ramble81@lemm.ee 2 months ago
So I just checked from my phone and Ko-fi supports straight credit card and Apple Pay. The latter would be the most secure since it uses a token per transaction, but CC would be fine too if you can get a virtual card number. Do you see either of those options?
JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I’ll try again tomorrow. I’m having some trouble here today.
I also missed the part about using Github, and of course I don’t know what my options are for that either.
So for virtual CC, I’ll try setting that up with my bank, altho it might be a little bit of a long-shot. As an alternative, would you recommend something like… “Privacy.com” I seem to recall?