05-23-2020, 06:53 AM
I recently ordered a PBP and was really agitated by the forced PayPal account signup.
In a normal economic transaction you intend to buy some product by providing the required funds. Nothing more, nothing less. In this case they ask you to also pay with your privacy by asking for your birth date, phone number, e-mail and what else. Sure you can provide some fake credentials here and there but the premise is wrong from the start. My intention was not to give money AND throw away some of my privacy.
Also PayPal is a company part of the USA full spectrum dominance blob that screws people, organizations and governments that for some reason or the other have fallen out of grace. Remember when PayPal blocked legal donation accounts of journalist Julian Assange currently rotting away in a UK dungeon awaiting his extradition to the USA.
I was intending to purchase a PinePhone in the nearby future but will put that on hold until I stop caring about PayPal or until Pine offers an alternative to PayPal.
In a normal economic transaction you intend to buy some product by providing the required funds. Nothing more, nothing less. In this case they ask you to also pay with your privacy by asking for your birth date, phone number, e-mail and what else. Sure you can provide some fake credentials here and there but the premise is wrong from the start. My intention was not to give money AND throw away some of my privacy.
Also PayPal is a company part of the USA full spectrum dominance blob that screws people, organizations and governments that for some reason or the other have fallen out of grace. Remember when PayPal blocked legal donation accounts of journalist Julian Assange currently rotting away in a UK dungeon awaiting his extradition to the USA.
I was intending to purchase a PinePhone in the nearby future but will put that on hold until I stop caring about PayPal or until Pine offers an alternative to PayPal.
