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Also you need to invest in alternatives
"Heavily integrated into eBay" except it isnt any more.
Firstly the article is a year and a half old but although you can still use PayPal on eBay to say it is heavily integrated is bullshit. EBay started moving away from PayPal years ago and at this point have integrated their own systems linking to your bank account to take the place of what they used to use PayPal for.
PayPal was acquired by Ebay for 1.5 billion in stock. Group that benefitted from that transactionmost already included musk, thiel, etc. They are intrinsically tired together forever. You also see PayPal as an option for all transactions in eBay, the very recent addition of alternative options, after decades of socializing people on PayPal as the default option doesn't change much.
Imagine your side of this "argument" being the hill someone dies on... I sure hope you're a bot, because otherwise you seem a pretty sad, confused human
You mention that PayPal was bought by eBay (in 2002) but not that it was spun off again in 2015. They're separate companies. If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.
If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal
Yes, just like how Coke is a competitor to Diet Coke and Sprite.
If anything, Venmo is a competitor of PayPal.
PayPal.. owns Venmo?
Again, you are weird to spend energy defending semantics around this corporation.. are you okay, bud? Temporarily embarrassed millionaire?
Correcting misinformation isn't defense of the entities involved. You can hate eBay (or any entity) and correct misinformation about them. There's no conflict there.
Maybe one of these options are good?
https://alternativeto.net/software/paypal/
https://alternativeto.net/software/venmo/
While we're at it:
Looking through Amazon alternatives... they all suck so far. Though this Etsy alternative looks interesting:
Never saw a .coop before. Unfortunately chicken.coop is reserved :(
Idk much about it, but what about DecentraShop?
It looks like it might be one of those blockchain-based marketplaces. I noticed there were a handful of those on AlternativesTo. I skipped em because I have no interest in supporting blockchain stuff.