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[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Isn't Stripe one of the growing alternatives?

[–] Noja@sopuli.xyz 28 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Stripe bans even more stuff https://stripe.com/en-de/legal/restricted-businesses , recently they banned payments for online dating platforms in the US.

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 17 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, Stripe is the reason itch.io had to pull all paid NSFW games.

However, it isn't exactly their fault, either:

We spoke with Stripe yesterday about their content policies. They confirmed that they will not be able to support adult content that fits the following definition: “content designed for sexual gratification.” Stripe asked us to pass along the following message to our users:

"Stripe is currently unable to support sexually explicit content due to restrictions placed on them by their banking partners, despite card networks generally supporting adult content (with the appropriate registrations). Stripe has indicated that they hope to be able to support adult content in the future."

[–] arararagi@ani.social 9 points 16 hours ago

This is why it's so hard to fight this, every company blames another one but never by name, I'm sure it's by design

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 points 19 hours ago

In the Itch.io incident, Stripe laid the blame for that on “banking partner” rules, claiming they were looking for ways to fix it.

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 8 points 19 hours ago

Stripe is a payment processor. It has different payment methods it supports. Which are MasterCard and Visa. But it does also support(if you can use it and the merchant accepts it): Giro card, other card options, Revolut Pay and other options. Those avoid the MasterCard, Visa ecosystem.

Regardless, not everyone wants to use or uses Stripe. And it's a bad thing for everyone to use Stripe just because of their interoperability because that then gives stripe too much power.

Plus, for a company like Valve, the fees of Stripe would severely affect their revenue.