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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal by fsckboy on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:21AM (#49474651)
>What makes them dead? It's still the only consistently supported thing I encounter online.

online is dead too, no app uses paypal, and plenty of online merchants take credit cards more than paypal; they even offer their own credit cards.

paypal hasn't innovated at all in over a decade, and people are scared of the way it will hang on to your money with little recourse.

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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal by chirau on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:45AM (#49474798)
"No app uses PayPal"

You have already lost your plot with that claim. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it is not widespread.

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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal by cricalix on Friday August 28, 2026 @01:49AM (#49474812)
PayPal is, unfortunately, not dead. It's used by RMV in Germany for a start - only way to pay for a bus ticket in the app/website. No credit or debit card, straight up PayPal account.
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Re:Stripe said to abandon $50B pursuit of PayPal by sho_hn on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:27AM (#49475036)
> online is dead too, no app uses paypal

PayPal is the payment method I use for Google Pay, so pretty much everything goes through it.

(I don't have a credit card, which is common where I live.)

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