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Ask HN: Is Stripe going to ban Onlyfans for processing adult content payments?
Seems like onlyfans is primarily in the adult content business, however, they appear to use stripe to process payments. Most card processors have clauses against supporting this type of activity, but it appears that Stripe is probably making a ton of money, given the growth of Onlyfans.
- RickS 6y agoThis was asked recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24291790 Relevant answer: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294801 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24294801 TLDR: onlyfans uses multiple payment processors, and presumably shuffles customers to different ones based on risk. The adult payments likely don't go through stripe.
- leerob 6y agoOnlyFans might have just gotten bit by this. A popular celebrity joined OnlyFans [1], created a bunch of turnover (chargebacks), and some policies changed. [1]: https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/sex-workers-blame-bella-thorne-changes-onlyfans-harm-their-income-n1238810 https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/sex-workers-bl...
- solaarphunk 6y agoNice find!
- redis_mlc 6y agoWhy do you care?