PayPal opted you into data sharing. Here’s how to stop it
PayPal quietly announced a new feature that allows your data to be shared with third-party advertisers.
On Oct 15, 2024 by Mikael Thalen
‘Had this happen with Venmo’: PayPal customer issues warning after over $500 went missing from her account
‘This is why my PayPal is only linked to a Visa card that’s linked to a separate bank account.”
On Feb 2, 2024 by Tiffanie Drayton
‘I am in World War 3 with Domino’s’: Pizza customer tries and fails to dispute her $55 PayPal charge. What can she do about it?
‘I will not be giving up.’
On Dec 19, 2023 by Grace Fowler
Why PayPal is at the center of a right-wing social media storm
Is PayPal preventing people from leaving?
On Oct 14, 2022 by Chris Stokel-Walker
When PayPal doesn’t pay: Businesses allege millions in funds held up for years
A number of businesses have been left flat broke, waiting for money.
On Sep 29, 2022 by Chris Stokel-Walker
A tech startup with a wildly successful GoFundMe is now at the mercy of PayPal, which is holding over $1.3 million in sales hostage
PayPal is making Flipper jump through hoops.
On Sep 12, 2022 by Chris Stokel-Walker
‘ISIS recruiting funds’: TikToker says joke Venmo subject line got his bank accounts locked
He said his accounts were frozen.
On Jun 8, 2022 by Jacob Seitz
‘This is why I have trust issues’: TikToker says multiple Depop sellers never shipped her orders
‘This is why I stopped using Depop.’
On May 27, 2022 by Gisselle Hernandez
Everyone’s hitting up Mitch McConnell with $2,000 Venmo requests
The Senate majority leader, seen as a key obstacle to COVID stimulus checks, is getting flooded with requests online.
On Dec 31, 2020 by Phil West
Are these donations for Hong Kong going to a Twitter scammer?
A Twitter account impersonating a local politician is asking users to give money over PayPal.
On Jul 20, 2020 by Mikael Thalen
Banned by PayPal and YouTube, this alt-right comedian is back on PayPal and YouTube (updated)
There are numerous YouTube channels and PayPal accounts that seem to belong to him.
On Jul 8, 2020 by Claire Goforth
Thomas Lane, ex-cop charged in George Floyd’s death, used crowdfunding site to post $750K bail
A now-deleted website solicited PayPal donations for Lane.
On Jun 11, 2020 by Mikael Thalen
PayPal suspended a writer’s account after she tried to pay artists who lost gigs over coronavirus (updated)
Author Ijeoma Oluo said the company keeps hanging up on her.
On Mar 13, 2020 by Samira Sadeque
Elizabeth Warren’s ex-staffers are asking for money via Venmo, PayPal
A Warren spokeswoman said contributions would ‘help support my big, structural sips of single malt.’
On Mar 7, 2020 by Mikael Thalen
PayPal pulls out of Pornhub, leaving sex workers to consider cryptocurrency
It’s a devastating but unsurprising move from the payment processor.
On Nov 14, 2019 by Ana Valens
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