Depending on where you’re based, you’ll find PayPal’s new data-sharing option under a different name. Remember, you may not see this at all if you’re based in a country that doesn’t allow it.
If you’re in the US, you should head to your profile Settings and tap on Data & privacy. Under Manage shared info, click on Personalized shopping. You should see the option enabled by default. Toggle off the button at the right to opt-out.
If you are in the UK like me, you’ll see something different after you head to your profile Settings and tap on Data & privacy.
Under Manage your privacy settings, here you’ll see an Interest-based marketing tab – click on it. At this point, two options will appear: Interest-based marketing on PayPal and Internet-based marketing on your accounts. You have to tap on each of these and toggle off the button at the right to opt-out. These instructions can also apply if you’re based in the EU.
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.
Also based in the EU, and mine were turned on
Can you report that somewhere?
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
Spain here, and both were turned on by default. Had to deactivate.
Same in Germany
Mine was already opted-out.
Ireland here, so EU, and both were turned on.
Is your account location set in GB?
Mine is in Germany and opted out. But I think remembering that there was already a post quite some time ago about the same thing.Address is Ireland. No location set in the location section (under name in profile section), but my address is clearly set.
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.
In the app, under Data and Privacy:
Let us share products, offers and rewards you might like to help stores personalize your shopping.
This sentence is a masterpiece of omission.
Dunno if they re-did something because I remember a post about something something paypal and privacy. Looked at it right now and it was already disabled
Maybe it’s by default opt-out for EU-members?
Location: Germany (EU)Off by default for me (EU)
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Was defaulted on for me (EU)
Not a lawyer but I don’t think this silent opt-in is legal.
It is against the GDPR.
Good thing I deleted my PayPal years ago over a previous TOS change.
What do you use instead?
Crypto. Works great for everything I previously used PayPal for
Edit: lmao people mad. For what it’s worth BTC is screwed by txn fees and ETH isn’t much better, and there’s the whole scam thing going around, but crypto is still the best libre banking.
I had a crypto phase. I know the entire ecosystem. Banking? Only if you can trust the backwards literal “who knows” entities you’re dealing with. Should I bring up Celsius or FTX?
The only reputable one I’d even begin to consider would maybe investing in a BTC ETF, at least then you’re clear of transaction fees and you get the same benefit of following the price as you would a Gold or oil fund and you don’t have to touch the poison directly. Ether and Base are going to get absolutely destroyed if Kamala wins and won’t fair much better than a flatline if Trump does, and you can wave goodbye to Arbitrum and Avax since the US isn’t going to give a shit about an outside entity.
In a perfect world, we’d have a modernized version of BTC that isn’t mineable, that’s limited in volume, inexpensive to upkeep, cheap to transfer and usable as a universal currency, but humanity always gets in the way, either in adoption, distrust, greed or shortsightedness. Either the entity developing it gets high and mighty or everyone holding it becomes an influencer, or it turns out it isn’t as eco friendly as you thought it was and the datacenter is on fire…
None of this even touches Brazil blocking X, which is the bulk of the memecoin universe aside from India, and Telegram getting shaky, influencers moving away from crypto and into marketing schemes…
You’re running out of scams.
BTC ETF is a sad state of affairs and has nothing to do with replacing PayPal. I’m talking about strictly using crypto to pay for work or services (i.e. I only pay people online in crypto, I only pay for my DNS/VPN/etc in crypto)
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