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Re:Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Pro... by Aurornis on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @12:05PM (#48123732)
Stripe (their payment process) will service adult content sites. It's not actually banned, but if your business is involved in categories with high chargeback rates (travel, gambling, cryptocurrency, vaping, adult content) you have to pay higher fees to account for the higher fraud rate in those categories

https://stripe.com/ie/resources/more/high-risk-merchant-acco...

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Re:Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Pro... by kotaKat on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @12:14PM (#48123895)
which is funny, because then they spin around and say they don't allow crowdfunding.

it's really asinine how stripe decides what is and what isn't allowed.

(see also: "oh, you linked your stripe to ko-fi? banned forever!" happened to me, it'll happen to you!)

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Re:Kickstarter Is Forced to Ban Adult Content by Payment Pro... by Scaled on Wednesday May 13, 2026 @02:18PM (#48125480)
I applied to stripe recentlyish as an adult game project with excellent processing history and very low chargeback rate and got denied.
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