Re:More Paypal nonsense
by slowpoke on Tuesday December 06, 2011 @04:18AM
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>Second, you don't have to be a merchant to hate PayPal.
Exactly. I refuse to use it more due to ethical reasons[1] than anything else, but there are a metric shit-ton of reasons for not supporting and using Paypal.
We need more (viable) alternatives. Paypal is a bit like Windows - it gained a monopoly because it was successful early on due to the lack of viable competition, and now we are at a point where we need to get rid of that monopoly, but it's difficult to do so - but we must.
[1] See the Wikileaks blockade, amongst other things. It's by far not the first time they pulled that shit, the WL incident just was the worst example so far.
Exactly. I refuse to use it more due to ethical reasons[1] than anything else, but there are a metric shit-ton of reasons for not supporting and using Paypal.
We need more (viable) alternatives. Paypal is a bit like Windows - it gained a monopoly because it was successful early on due to the lack of viable competition, and now we are at a point where we need to get rid of that monopoly, but it's difficult to do so - but we must.
[1] See the Wikileaks blockade, amongst other things. It's by far not the first time they pulled that shit, the WL incident just was the worst example so far.