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Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content (www.gamingonlinux.com)
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[–] zqps@sh.itjust.works 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Unfortunately they are indeed big players, Stripe where people use credit cards and PayPal everywhere else. Both horrible companies that we'd be a lot better off if replaced with privacy-respecting alternatives.

[–] razzazzika@lemmy.zip 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I mainly use PayPal as a necessary evil so I don't have to pull out my wallet and put the card info in every time I want to buy a game. I dunno maybe I SHOULD go back to that because then only the games that are worth the effort of getting up off the couch are the ones I'd buy.

[–] chilicheeselies@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

You can just save your card info in steam. No need for paypal for that.

Honeslty i am not sure what paypal is even for anymore

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 12 hours ago

Ive literally never used PayPal. I didnt trust it in the early days, and by the time online shopping was normal there were far easier alternatives.