Just disabled. Thanks for the heads up.
Paypal needs to be deleted
I can't believe we don't have anything to actually compete with it
They also like to just hold onto large chunks of money arbitrarily.
Oh, you're going to take it up with customer support?
Lololol.
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.
Spain here, and both were turned on by default. Had to deactivate.
Same in Germany
Just checked it on three different accounts (germany) and each one had those two options turned on.
What if I told you this option doesn't actually get respected?
Then, hopefully, PayPal can look forward to spending at the very least 2% of their worldwide revenue to pay fines.
Ireland here, so EU, and both were turned on.
Also based in the EU, and mine were turned on
Can you report that somewhere?
I assume so, but I'm not sure where. I'll have to Google it later
UK here and they are turned on.
Thanks a lot, Brexit :(
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
UK but mine were off ¯_(ツ)_/¯
they are turned on
Ooh, violate my privacy, daddy.
Remember, you may not see this at all if you're based in a country that doesn't allow it.
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It's not enough that we have huge costs for use, we found another way to squeeze every last penny out of you, so we're going to do that because we're greedy fucks
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.
In the app, under Data and Privacy:
Yep, they turned it on by default. It looks like you have until Nov 27th to turn it off before they share your data.
Good thing I deleted my PayPal years ago over a previous TOS change.
What do you use instead?
Just standard credit card processing for purchases and zelle or venmo for transfers.
I got bad news about who owns Venmo.
I assume everyone is owned by someone terrible, but the individual policies and changes are what drives me to swap.
I pay for things on sites processed by PayPal too, I just don’t have an account.
The credit card is selling your data as well, in most cases
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.
Ah so now they're a poor steward of my data as well as my money?
Yea, paypal is bad news all around
I guess most people don't know most banks have electronic funds transfer, or virtual credit cards, etc.
I know about all of those. But so many websites only accept PayPal - especially small businesses. There's a bunch of regulatory hurdles a website doesn't have to worry about if they just have PayPal take care of everything related to payment.
So many places online don't accept any form of payment except PayPal.
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.
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"
They should have thought of that before hiring Will Ferrell to be a clown in a commercial for them.
US only iirc
Time to find another useless account I made as young idiot and delete....
God damn I am so tired of this
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.
I'm also in California at the moment and it was toggled on. Is it based on current location or the location when you made the account?
No idea. But I think I'll check it again every few days
Good post. Just turned it off. I appreciate the heads up.
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