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[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 6 days ago

Yeah, but then you give PayPal a whole bunch of control over your bank account. IIRC they can just withdraw whenever they want?

With card payments, there's chargebacks for fraudulent transfers or if a vendor refuses a refund on fraudulent grounds. Those are just not a thing for bank transfers, at least not where I come from.

Personally, most of the time I make a payment, it's a bank transfer (they're instant most of the time anyway between SEPA accounts and under 10k per transfer or whatever). But there are many benefits of a card payment. Others include: Collecting points (on credit cards in some countries, or something like a Revolut card on any plan other than the free one), purchase insurance, etc.

People are always going to want to make card payments. We need better alternatives in the card company space, and standards to make sure every vendor can accept payments from every card type.