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Seeking consumer privacy focused paypal alternative in the US, prefer FOSS if possible. Any suggestions? (lemm.ee)

submitted 3 weeks ago by davoid@lemm.ee to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I'd bet you can guess why

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[–] davoid@lemm.ee 8 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I'm more looking to keep legal transaction data private in the sense of not being shared or sold. If that's even possible ever-the-more.

[–] SecurityPro@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Best option I can think of is privacy.com

You can create virtual cards linked to your bank account and the transaction data is masked when processed by you bank. All my bank transactions show up as NSA Gift Shop. My bank doesn't know where I'm spending my money. Yes you have to trust privacy.com...

[–] davoid@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah i guess it's too much to ask for open source for this. Privacy.com actually looks like a good option. I will check it out. Thank you.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What about just wire transfer? Everything goes through your bank anyway. That’s what I’ve replaced PayPal with a while ago.

[–] davoid@lemm.ee 2 points 2 weeks ago

Thanks! That had not occured to me. The purchases i would use it for would generally be small amounts, so i wonder if that would be feasible.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think there is CC masking service Lois rossamnn shills that that's prolly easiest route for what youa re looking.

[–] davoid@lemm.ee 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Never heard of Rossman... looks like an interesting thing he's got going. Thx

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah if you are down this path it was inevitable for him to come up. He got a lot of hot takes which are not that very hot once you think about it.