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Starting early summer 2025, we’ll be building more personal experiences for you.
Let’s just keep it professional Fintech. Thanks for the post OP.
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Submitted 6 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Hominine@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Confirmed this was enabled in my account. Fuckers. Also check out your search privacy settings in your PayPal account too. Also sharing info by default.
paraphrand@lemmy.world 6 months ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
henfredemars@infosec.pub 6 months ago
Ah so now they’re a poor steward of my data as well as my money?
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Yea, paypal is bad news all around
helenslunch@feddit.nl 6 months ago
So many places online don’t accept any form of payment except PayPal.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ye, i dont know how it is worldwide but here in west europe paying online with your bank is just like paying with paypal. The only advantages paypal has over my bank is its return policy and it technically not directly linking the purchase with my personal info.
I havent used paypal in a while tbh…
ThePantser@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks, disabled. If they want this kind of info then give users a reward for it like 1-2% cashback or coupons. This is just greedy.
ReginaPhalange@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They can’t give a reward for a “oh shit we’re running out of hedge fund money, we need to stay solvent , let’s sell out our user’s data”
BallsandBayonets@lemmings.world 6 months ago
They should have thought of that before hiring Will Ferrell to be a clown in a commercial for them.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Good post. Just turned it off. I appreciate the heads up.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Mine was off, don’t know if it’s because I’m in California, but I toggled it back and forth to check and left it off.
wanderingmagus@lemm.ee 6 months ago
I’m also in California and it was toggled on.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Cool, they banned my account some years ago and nothing of value was lost. And I don’t think I even did anything to violate their rules, I only used it to pay rent for a few years and a handful of eBay purchases. My best guess is that someone “hacked” my account (my PW was pretty bad and in multiple breaches), but I tried logging in after years of not using it and couldn’t do anything with it.
But yeah, nothing of value was lost. I haven’t needed PayPal for years and don’t need it now. Just say no and pay directly on whatever site you’re buying at. I’ve bought tons of stuff from eBay and other online sites for years and it has never been an issue.
So screw 'em, just don’t use their service.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 months ago
They also like to just hold onto large chunks of money arbitrarily.
Oh, you’re going to take it up with customer support?
Lololol.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
I don’t even see this option on my account. Old Canadian account, but my phone/Paypal app is EU.
jago@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Nor I, on my in-Canada account. Desktop access only; I don’t have the Paypal app installed on my phone.
The article’s image shows, under Manage your privacy settings, the options:
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Permissions you’ve given
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Interest-based marketing (which is the option pertinent to this issue)
- Interest-based marketing on PayPal
- Interest-based marketing in your other accounts
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Blocked contacts
But my account’s options are:
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Permissions you’ve given
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Manage your cookies
- Marketing
- Performance
- Functional
- Essential
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Blocked contacts
Possibly the Marketing checkbox is the Canadian version of this? I’ve got that checkbox turned off, always have.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 6 months ago
Same account options as yours here on mobile, marketing is also off for me.
Thanks for comparing notes!
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Stovetop@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Glad I deleted PayPal ages ago.
cm0002@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Doesn’t seem to show for business accounts FYI
Poots@mander.xyz 6 months ago
Can confirm it’s a no-show for business accounts, same for me in US
woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Off by default for me (EU)
ugo@feddit.it 6 months ago
Was defaulted on for me (EU)
woelkchen@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Was defaulted on for me (EU)
Not a lawyer but I don’t think this silent opt-in is legal.
tautalas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
It was on for me in Lithuania
PunkiBas@lemmy.world 6 months ago
On for me in the EU
dhork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
What is someone squatted on your email, starting an unverified account attached to your email address with their phone number, but the fuckers at PayPal won’t do a thing about it?
KnightontheSun@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I had someone hijack my account last year, Like a dummy, I had failed to setup 2FA. I caught it in the morning after they worked it most of the wee hours. Phone and email had been changed. I contacted PP and to my surprise they were effective in righting everything. By the end of the day, it was corrected. I was absolutely shocked they were so helpful, but I guess it can happen. So, maybe try again?
dhork@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Trust me, we have tried. The problem is that l, while the PayPal account was never verified to that email address, somehow a foreign number is attached to it. Every time we have tried to use that email with the account, the verification ping goes to that number, even though the email is unverified. We haven’t found a way to tell PayPal to disassociate that number, because we never had any account attached to it to begin with.
theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Good thing I deleted my PayPal years ago over a previous TOS change.
Anon518@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
What do you use instead?
OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 6 months ago
Crypto. Works great for everything I previously used PayPal for
theyoyomaster@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Just standard credit card processing for purchases and zelle or venmo for transfers.
Nonononoki@lemmy.world 6 months ago
US only iirc
FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi 6 months ago
In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I’m in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.
tiramichu@lemm.ee 6 months ago
UK here and they are turned on.
Thanks a lot, Brexit :(
EvilBit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ooh, violate my privacy, daddy.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Even if the UK is not in the EU the GDPR still applies there, just the version it got while it was in the EU tho, no revisions
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 6 months ago
OP mentioned this
Cavemanfreak@lemm.ee 6 months ago
Also based in the EU, and mine were turned on
Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 6 months ago
Can you report that somewhere?
Clanket@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Ireland here, so EU, and both were turned on.
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Thanks, i was thinking id need to go check them later today and that it was kinda illegal. Now i can be rest assured its fiiine
Argyle13@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Spain here, and both were turned on by default. Had to deactivate.