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I think it's not an idiotic idea, it's just that your idea of what counts as third-party payment support is a single smaller payment provider located mainly in
by bscphil 7y ago
I think it's not an idiotic idea, it's just that your idea of what counts as third-party payment support is a single smaller payment provider located mainly in the United States. I follow a similar policy, but in my case the third-party payment services are Paypal, Stripe, and Coinbase, all of which are reliable and don't require me to give financial data to the seller. Paypal seems to be near-universally supported on small ecommerce sites.
- oefrha 7y agoNote that PayPal gives away your email address, and I’m not a fan of that. If a third party wants my email address, they should ask me directly (and I’ll give them a unique one); PayPal shouldn’t distribute my email address for me. Look, I use three email domains for online accounts, in addition to a unique address for each account — one domain that links to my actual identity (my public-facing, professional domain), one domain that’s somewhat anonymous, and one domain reserved for highly sensitive accounts, e.g. online banking, PayPal, AppleID, etc. And PayPal sharing my email address with third parties breaks the model, making my sensitive domain less secure.
- hprotagonist 7y agoi picked shopify because i know they have an apple pay switch. i don’t care who processes the payment, i just like being able to buy physical goods without making a new account, and ideally without any more friction than faceID while impulse-buying nonsense while i’m on the toilet :)