Setting doesn’t seem to exist for me. Does it not apply to Business Accounts?
Thank you. This got me to look into all the settings in privacy and I turned off quite a few things. Much appreciated
I’m unable to turn off this setting right now. Getting an error reported. I’m sure this is totally unrelated to people finding out about it and turning it off.
This isn’t even in my settings for some reason
In the iOS app, it was Settings > My Profile > Data & Privacy
Thank you - this was genuinely helpful.
I fully expect PayPal to harvest and share the United States data anyway - regardless if you opt out - and they’ll get a slap on the wrist 5 years later when someone finds out about it.
Note that there are two similar options: “PayPal shopping” and “Personalized shopping”. The post mentions this but they’re similar enough that I kind of glossed over it and almost missed the Personalized one.
Is there any reason to use PayPal vs a bank card, or a credit card, or Venmo or any other payment option?
I will use PayPal when making purchases, mostly to keep from giving my payment information directly to yet another company that could handle it improperly.
Not to say that PayPal wouldn’t misuse the information too, but it’s one company that might misuse my information vs many companies, so I’ll go with the one.
Epic Store will throw errors when you try to use a credit card instead of PayPal.
So, no.
No. You will get scammed with zero recourse.
Legit question: why do people still use PayPal?
Because it’s accepted all over the internet and is the only way to pay on many websites.
It’s also a way to send money to friends, just like venmo and such. And just like venmo and such, has very few consumer protections or regulation.
The US doesn’t have a national or government system to freely send payments to other people - and no one uses checks anymore - so we all have to pick one of these equally awful private companies to use to send money and hope we don’t get scammed or have our account frozen and our money seized.
Sometimes, that’s the only way to send money internationally.
For me the only time is when it’s a subscription and I want to be able to cancel it easily especially for trials, since PayPal (to a degree) simplifies this
Cheers, my dude
done. cheers for the tip.
Thx bruh
Thanks for this!
I’m in the US so I had the personalized shopping setting, but with how the initial message is written saying the US won’t have the settings I’m not sure if I’m missing something or not.
