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Attached: 1 image PayPal banned our account for “unusual activity”. So that’s fun. You can still sponsor us through @Liberapay though! 🩷 https://liberapay.com/elementary/
  • Brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    32·
    2 months ago

    Welcome to the club :P

    Not surprising coming from PayPal, elementary OS should really just move away from them. Fun fact: If their PayPal account was banned that means all recent donators that sent them money through PayPal were also banned/had their accounts frozen.

    I used to use PayPal maybe 15-20 years ago and used to donate to FOSS projects with it. At one point PayPal decided I was being shady and banned my account. At the time figured it was just my own problem but later on I heard from one of those FOSS projects, turned out that their own PayPal account was banned in the process due to receiving money from a banned account.

  • MIDItheKID@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 months ago

    I had a PayPal account at some point for some reason. Then one day I was out with my family and my phone started getting blown up with password reset requests, then emails from PayPal saying there was suspicious activity on my account originating in India, and then I immediately removed all payment methods from my account, and shut down the account. Never again.

    • Passerine@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      2 months ago

      I shut mine down a few months ago. I hadn’t used it in years, but one of my coworkers had their Paypal hacked and the process of getting them to fix it sounded horrible.