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Re:Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People by Amadou on Saturday August 31, 2013 @01:06AM (#6305856)
This defaulting to bank transfers is a relatively recent thing in their history;

I've had a paypal account since before Ebay bought them and they've always used sneaky user interface tricks to push customers into using bank transfers over credit cards. It was the first thing I noticed about them after signing up.

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Re:Dark Patterns - User Interfaces Designed to Trick People by Stratoscope on Saturday August 31, 2013 @01:39AM (#6305932)
That's right, PayPal has always worked this way. In fact, it's only fairly recently that it let me switch to a credit card without putting up a warning page about all the benefits I'd get by using my checking account instead of a credit card.
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