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    Good news if you are a resident of California, Vermont, or North Dakota:

    we need to first obtain your consent before we share your nonpublic personal information for this purpose and to allow you to benefit from this service. This Supplemental Privacy Notice provides additional information about this data sharing and how you can consent to such sharing.

    My “Personalized Shopping” setting was unchecked.

    Another reminder that your state and local elections matter more than the federal to your daily lives.

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        Even more so, yes. I will be mostly fine in California even if Trump is elected, in all likelihood. The worst things about Trump’s presidency were not felt here but seen in other states.

        Obviously Trump is a huge threat to federalism in general and democracy at the federal level, but they can only do so much to the states and cities.

        Where would you rather live under a trump presidency? Los Angeles or Orlando? Seattle or Nashville? Philadelphia or Little Rock? Even Austin, a very blue city, is prevented from doing a lot of good by the state of Texas.

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    I’m unable to turn off this setting right now. Getting an error reported. I’m sure this is totally unrelated to people finding out about it and turning it off.

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      a timeless classic.

      had the same problem with lufthansa where the refund form would lead to an error every time after filling it …for a whole week conveniently this happened after a strike created a lot of clear cases for refunds

      obviously you have to apply for a refund for your non existent flight. it wont happen automatically

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      According to what I read on another site:

      If your PayPal is officially a “business” account rather than a “personal” account, this doesn’t apply.

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    Note that there are two similar options: “PayPal shopping” and “Personalized shopping”. The post mentions this but they’re similar enough that I kind of glossed over it and almost missed the Personalized one.

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    I closed my account when that Uber marketing exec got hired by PayPal. This was inevitable.

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    I fully expect PayPal to harvest and share the United States data anyway - regardless if you opt out - and they’ll get a slap on the wrist 5 years later when someone finds out about it.

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    Is there any reason to use PayPal vs a bank card, or a credit card, or Venmo or any other payment option?

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      I will use PayPal when making purchases, mostly to keep from giving my payment information directly to yet another company that could handle it improperly.

      Not to say that PayPal wouldn’t misuse the information too, but it’s one company that might misuse my information vs many companies, so I’ll go with the one.

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        In Poland there is a payment system called blik, and it’s not a company, but more like a protocol iirc. The blik provider is literally your bank, so no external platform to give your info to. Although, I’m not sure whether it doesn’t share your payment information, since I don’t really know how it works internally.

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      Sometimes it’s the only option I can use online as I don’t have a credit card, only a direct debit/bank card. I’ll only use it if I have to though

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      I’ve had shops that either accept PayPal, or a bank transfer that they’ll manually process when they get to it.