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I Just Fired PayPal -- What is the Best Alternate Person to Person Payment System?

posted by martyb on Thursday December 01 2016, @05:53PM   
from the define-"best" dept.

e_armadillo writes:

I have been using PayPal off and on since 2012 for 2 main reasons.

1 - Convenience, I didn't have to enter a credit card every time I purchased from a site other than usual trusted sites where I store my payment information, like Amazon, and sending payments to friends/family was simple.
2 - Peace of mind.

I recently found that the assumption of (2) was wrong, so I fired PayPal. I don't want to get into the details. Beyond being therapeutic, it won't really make life better moving forward.

That brings me to the question, since I have fired PayPal, I am sure that someone will want to send me, or more likely, have me send them money. Before I go out and research the providers on my own, I thought I would come here. What do Soylentils suggest for peer to peer payments?

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• Re:a related topic Re:a related topic (Score: 2) by TheRaven on Friday December 02 2016, @11:25AM

  by TheRaven (270) on Friday December 02 2016, @11:25AM (#435890) Journal

  The issue you have is the permissions, and that is rightly fucked on both Android and iOS. You have to jailbreak/root the crap out of it before you can start taking away permissions from apps, and sometimes, that breaks the apps

  That's never been true on iOS (apps ask for permissions as they require them and you can turn them off again in settings if you've granted them previously) and it isn't true for recent versions of Android anyway. I was quite interested to note that the Android version of my bank's app asks for such an egregious number of permissions (full call and browsing history, for example, in a recent update) that I uninstalled it, whereas the iOS app asks for very few.

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• Re:a related topic (Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:01AM

  by urza9814 (3954) on Tuesday December 06 2016, @12:01AM (#437469) Journal

  I was quite interested to note that the Android version of my bank's app asks for such an egregious number of permissions (full call and browsing history, for example, in a recent update) that I uninstalled it, whereas the iOS app asks for very few.

  You've got that completely backwards. The reason it doesn't ask for so many permissions on iOS is because iOS doesn't require it to ask for permission in the first place, where Android generally does. Apple assumes every app should already have access to the internet, should already have access to your complete call history, should already have access to all this stuff...so it doesn't have to ask your permission.

  Absolutely any app on that iOS device can already read your entire call history. It appears that Apple doesn't even attempt to restrict it, nor do they make any attempt to inform you if it is being accessed, nor do they allow you to explicitly deny that permission -- all of which Android does:
  https://iosstuff.wordpress.com/2011/08/19/accessing-iphone-call-history/ [wordpress.com]

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