PayPal

“PayPal also offers tap-to-pay, though I recently had to disable Graphene's 'secure app spawning' feature for the PayPal app to get it to open.”

“I was glad I could just ask a friend to send me something to PayPal as a way to do online payments.”

“I have been on the other side (seller, selling digital goods such as dev and design) and have seen how quick PP is to yank those funds back.”

“The reason their future is not that bright is that things like Apple Pay and Google Pay are starting to eat their lunch”

“Paypal allows more payment methods (direct debit from your bank account being a big pull here in Germany)”

“people want PayPal for payment because they don't want to give their bank details or don't have a credit card”

“PayPal is the only real company to offer any meaningful support to customers targeted by fraud”

“handing it straight to a trusted payment processor always reminds me that it's not like the others”

“I'm from Europe and like Paypal a lot for paying for things online; much easier than using a credit card.”

“Admittedly it helped a lot that I live in Norway now where everyone uses Vipps (which is so much better), and PayPal is not a thing at all.”

“I use it on e-commerce sites for first purchase or if it's unlikely I'm going to buy anything from the same site again.”

“PayPal is pretty convenient as it can withdraw directly from a SEPA account and enables online shopping”

“there's no innovation I feel. With eBay having CC support and being able to charge and return a charge back to the card, PayPal now is in a niche.”

“PayPal originally took off as it was convenient and fast, saving you from filling in card details each time”

“I use it less and less since Apple Pay is available pretty much everywhere, but it can still be handy now and then.”

“PayPal accidentally broke support for GrapheneOS with the default settings for the app by adding incorrect anti-tampering code”

“PayPal shipped an update with incorrect anti-tampering code incompatible with secure app spawning.”

“PayPal shipped incorrect anti-tampering code wrongly detecting our secure spawning feature as tampering.”

“For that argument to hold, they'd also have to blacklist any phone not running the newest, most up to date Android version”

“Punishing the users that know what they are doing while rewarding the ones that don't is the most counter-productive and detrimental crap anyone could come up with.”

“checking what OS I decide to run on the devices I own to check my own banking is any of their concern is a problem in and of itself”

“I had to start using it after moving to Germany, because everyone else expects you to use it.”

“its buyer protection is one of the significant reasons that I keep using Paypal for online payments”

“The advantage that PayPal offers me as a buyer is a middleman between the vendor and myself that I control.”

“they favor large merchants against the consumer. I had a problem with a product and the company was playing games with the warranty.”

“since I already have my credit/debit cards saved there and don't want to hand over numbers to a random website”

“Online payments especially between regular people (so not businesses) are still dominated by PayPal.”

“buyer protections and the obfuscation of the banking info are genuine features for people”

“I got screwed over with an unauthorized transaction on my credit card that was attached to a PayPal account... They refused to acknowledge the transaction as unauthorized”

“The scammer somehow convinced PayPal the item I tried to buy was illegal/against PayPal ToS, which resulted in them banning *me* instead of the scammer.”

“Paypal's post-login verification step breaks so every time I want to buy something using Paypal I have to switch to Chrome.”

“Paypal was indispensable for years. When they set a KYC deadline involving some dude in a video call suddenly asking me to produce my Aadhar”

“it's really a gamechanger not having to play three card monte selecting the correct card to use for each transaction”

“That way, whenever I need to rotate credit cards for whatever reason, I only need to update them in one location”

“I don't really like spreading my CC details to servers of questionable maintenance state than strictly necessary”

“There's shouldn't be a miniscule percentage chance of your entire livelyhood being ripped away and locked forever without recourse simply by using a certain payment platform.”

“PayPal locking your account and freezing your funds forever, which is what they do, is tantamount to legal grievous injury or death.”

“PayPal, Palantir, SpaceX (as an early investor), and backing young founders through the Thiel Fellowship have created massive value and progress.”

“Paypal only still seems to be a major thing in the US where modern payment methods are still very much behind the rest of the world.”

“the only semi reliable payment method attached to my credit card that doesn't constantly fail payments on my desktop computer”