Depending on where you’re based, you’ll find PayPal’s new data-sharing option under a different name. Remember, you may not see this at all if you’re based in a country that doesn’t allow it.
If you’re in the US, you should head to your profile Settings and tap on Data & privacy. Under Manage shared info, click on Personalized shopping. You should see the option enabled by default. Toggle off the button at the right to opt-out.
If you are in the UK like me, you’ll see something different after you head to your profile Settings and tap on Data & privacy.
Under Manage your privacy settings, here you’ll see an Interest-based marketing tab – click on it. At this point, two options will appear: Interest-based marketing on PayPal and Internet-based marketing on your accounts. You have to tap on each of these and toggle off the button at the right to opt-out. These instructions can also apply if you’re based in the EU.
Good thing I deleted my PayPal years ago over a previous TOS change.
What do you use instead?
Just standard credit card processing for purchases and zelle or venmo for transfers.
I got bad news about who owns Venmo.
I assume everyone is owned by someone terrible, but the individual policies and changes are what drives me to swap.
I pay for things on sites processed by PayPal too, I just don’t have an account.
The credit card is selling your data as well, in most cases
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Crypto. Works great for everything I previously used PayPal for
Edit: lmao people mad. For what it’s worth BTC is screwed by txn fees and ETH isn’t much better, and there’s the whole scam thing going around, but crypto is still the best libre banking.
While I… dream of a world where something like kaspa is used for such things, quit larping. Crypto is for gambling and money laundering.
No one on Facebook marketplace is going to go “Oh, send me your eth address.”, lmao.