Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” Stripe rule?

Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by toxik on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:09PM (#24298075)

Wow, this is hysterical! A bank saying no to honest money because it’s sex toys, not even that, because it’s sex toys looking like human genitalia, — no not even that, because the toys are skin colored!

I wonder if this would ever happen in Europe. I somehow feel that we’re more... open to these things. Do you know about Klarna?

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by nolok on Thursday August 27, 2020 @04:45PM (#24298442)

I don't know about Europe in general, but my brick and mortar bank (one of the major banking chain in France with an agency in pretty much any city of over 5000 people) was perfectly fine with adult things being sold using one their group's online platform as long as I was ok with their elevated rates. I've seen lately that they're also responsible for payment processing on dorcel.com (the french porn group, adult content and toys).

Dalenys ( https://www.dalenys.com/ ) -> natixis belgium -> natixis -> bpce group ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groupe_BPCE )

I've had awkward talk with them (mostly around the fact that I should not point out their parent group brand much near the adult content), but never in a million years would they tell me what color a dildo should be.

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by capableweb on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:17PM (#24298786)

Interesting question. I checked out Klarna and Adyen which seems to be the most popular in Europe right now.

Adyen lists "Adult entertainment, websites & content (such as)" as not allowed. https://www.adyen.com/dam/jcr:47f292a9-c9e2-4a69-8592-2e15ff...

Klarna lists "Adult, sexual or pornographic products and services, including live web cam" as not allowed. https://cdn.klarna.com/1.0/shared/content/policy/ethic/en_gb...

Both of them expand it more to cover everything possible around adult content and the like.

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by tehbeard on Thursday August 27, 2020 @06:45PM (#24299511)

... And yet ... https://www.lovehoney.co.uk/help/about-klarna/ ...

Whether they fly under "novelty items" or not, idk.

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by 7952 on Thursday August 27, 2020 @07:35PM (#24299899)

My guess is that the list of restricted things just means that you should talk to them first.

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by toxik on Friday August 28, 2020 @03:00AM (#24302111)

Strange, I would never have thought banks would have such moral hangups.

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by danudey on Thursday August 27, 2020 @05:43PM (#24299031)

> because it’s sex toys looking like human genitalia

Well, I think it might be the opposite of that:

> I understand that your products were designed to depict the body parts of mythological and fantastical creatures

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by toxik on Friday August 28, 2020 @02:58AM (#24302098)

If you would read the next few words of my comment you would see that this is correctly reflected.

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Re:Ask HN: How does onlyfans.com work around the “no porn” S... by ragnese on Thursday August 27, 2020 @08:11PM (#24300115)

>it’s sex toys looking like human genitalia

Not that it matters, but reading the comment you replied to, it sounds like they are not shaped like human genitalia...

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