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In this case I think it's justified [0] to offer an alternate reporting: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6y42jggdyo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6y42
by Terr_ 1y ago
In this case I think it's justified [0] to offer an alternate reporting: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6y42jggdyo https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6y42jggdyo
> European banks have seen widespread unauthorised direct debits from PayPal accounts, the German Savings Banks Association (DSGV) says.
> The German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) says payments worth in the region of 10 billion euros (£8.6bn) have had to be blocked, after PayPal's fraud-checking system failed.
[0] I was impeded by cookie popups and adblock/privacy-mode blockers in another language, and neither are direct reports or superior details.
- tietjens 1y agoYes, I agree. At the time this was the only English link I found. The BBC is much better, and it's a European issue. I cannot edit the link or title.
- altairprime 1y agoYou can email the mods and ask them to do so. Footer contact link and mention “FP #x” somewhere in the subject.
- hk__2 1y agoWhat’s "FP" for?
- buggymcbugfix 1y agofront page?
- Terr_ 1y agoMaybe, but it seems odd that someone would refer to a submission by a numeric ranking that changes constantly.
- nkrisc 1y agoHey I’ve seen people use email addresses as unique, immutable identifiers so who knows what crazy thing people will do.
- Dylan16807 1y agoOkay, I guess. Half of that is a far more understandable mistake, and the other half makes things easier for everyone.
- altairprime 1y agoIf you wish to refer to the submission uniquely in the subject, as of a few years ago anyways they requested appending ` (1235676423)` to the end of it with the ?id=1235676423 of the comment/post/whatever that you're writing about. I tend to do so more in emails sent from a keyboard than from a mobile phone for UI reasons.
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- tchalla 1y agoFalse Positive of course. Why type of a full word with no ambiguity when you can confuse everyone with some obscure abbreviation ?
- nixass 1y agoFloating point?
- mastermage 1y agoFunctional Programming
- mannycalavera42 1y agoFurry Platform
- addandsubtract 1y agoFix Pls
- raphman 1y agoBetter link: https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paypal-German-banks-apparently-blocked-payments-of-billions-of-euros-10622936.html https://www.heise.de/en/news/Paypal-German-banks-apparently-...
- chatmasta 1y agoMaybe it’s a better link, but I can only read the content if I accept their sharing my data with 180 partners.
- SLWW 1y agohttps://archive.is/6h2TN https://archive.is/6h2TN
- tharkun__ 1y agoWhich is the same as many if not most of the other sites we regularly link to on HN. You just aren't told about it.
- Dylan16807 1y agoIf I have to accept it I think that's even worse than doing typical tracking behind my back. Also requiring acceptance from EU users would be a GDPR violation, I think? But it didn't ask me at all so I can't evaluate it well.
- dod9er 1y agoI think it is great that they are forced to show whats going one. Otherwise we wouldnt even discuss, just no one would care.
- Dylan16807 1y agoForced to show is better than going behind my back. But making me click an "accept" button is just dirty. I hate that.