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  Lea Verou, PhD (@LeaVerou) reported 5 minutes ago

  @chesscomsupport I'm trying to buy a Friends & Family subscription, but the payment page is buggy and rejects every single payment method. I have tried entering credit card details directly, using Apple Pay, using Google Pay, and PayPal. Most of them fail after I try to pay, showing "Your transaction failed. Please check your card details and try again.” Looking at the browser developer tools shows an HTTP 422 error. PayPal fails before it even starts with an "Error: Expected an subscription id to be passed to createSubscription" in the developer console. Since the Friends and Family subscription has a separate payment page, I suspect only that page is broken. I had no problem signing up for a free trial through Apple on my phone but I know that the Friends & Family subscription has to be purchased from the website.

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  Marik 🦖🔴🔴🔴 (@mika8002) reported 7 minutes ago

  @0xApollo440 @0xPolygon @PayPal Slow money rails are finally losing leverage

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  World Monitoring Center (@WMC_WORLD) reported 7 minutes ago

  Bill Gates daughter runs a shopping app that secretly took credit for sales it never made. Here's what happened: When you buy something online after clicking a link from a website or app, that website or app gets a small cut of the sale from the store, as a thank you for sending you there. It only gets that money if it actually sent you there. Phia is a shopping app made by Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, and her co-founder Sophia Kianni. It tells you where to find the cheapest price and best discount codes. It has 1.2 million downloads in the last year and raised $43.5 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, Khloe Kardashian, and Hailey Bieber. Bloomberg tested the app along with a researcher named Ben Edelman and a rival app called Capital One Shopping. They checked more than 50 shopping websites, including #Walmart, #Nike, and #Zara. Here is what they found. When someone was about to finish buying something, Phia's app secretly opened a hidden browser tab in the background, without the person clicking anything or asking for it. That hidden tab quietly told the store "this sale came from Phia," then closed itself within seconds. Most people never saw it happen. This means Phia could take the money back reward even if a person found the item completely on their own, or even if they clicked a link from a totally different website first. In one test, someone clicked a deal link from a Wirecutter article to buy something on Nordstrom. Phia's hidden tab quietly swapped in its own code and took the reward meant for Wirecutter instead. This trick is called cookie stuffing. It is against the rules of every major store and shopping network involved, including Walmart, eBay, and a platform called Impact(.)com. Impact(.)com has already suspended Phia's account and is now checking Phia's past sales to see how many were affected. Phia says this was a mistake in their code from December, and they fixed it within a day of being told about it. This is not Phia's first problem. Back in November, researchers found an older version of the app was secretly copying entire webpages a person visited, including bank statements and private emails, and sending that data to Phia's servers. The company said it was only trying to figure out which websites were shopping sites, and it has since changed the app to stop doing that. A similar accusation happened to PayPal's Honey app in 2024, and PayPal is still dealing with a lawsuit over it today. Phia is now facing the exact same kind of accusation, in just its first year.

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  onog (@onogonog) reported 8 minutes ago

  @CardPurchaser said sold out the first minute so i couldnt buy and then i hit about 5 more errors then paypal wont load then i sit in line and get to check out now the check out button just says processing

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  Lyod || Vgen artist (@Lyodfx) reported 11 minutes ago

  Genuine question for fellow freelancers/artists. Do you usually charge clients for PayPal transaction fees, or do you absorb those fees yourself? recently had a client cancel and got blocked because they felt the additional fees weren't communicated clearly enough. I'm not looking to argue orake some trouble,I'd genuinely like to learn what the standard approach is and how you communicate it upfront. I'd really appreciate hearing your guys experiences. 🙏

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  Kumukane (@innongwaru) reported 13 minutes ago

  @FlyAirZimbabwe Hi, I'm trying to book tickets from LGW to HRE but your website has several issues: • No Terms & Conditions • No baggage information • Missing payment options (Klarna, PayPal Pay Later etc.) • Site keeps freezing/crashing • No contact email Please help!

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  I S A ❥ (@aleafformety) reported 15 minutes ago

  @kitseyransom Hi I’m trying to purchase with PayPal and it’s not working

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  princess 🤍 (@leslierainee) reported 16 minutes ago

  Need help trouble shooting paypal 🫩🫩

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  Samuel M (@corridor_intel) reported 19 minutes ago

  The usual framing is "global payment giants bring stablecoin expertise to Africa." Yellow Card's own VP of operations just published the argument backwards: PayPal and Visa are the ones who'll need Africa's expertise, not the other way around. The reasoning holds up better than it sounds. Yellow Card already has live partnerships with both Visa and PayPal. The actual problem those companies are solving isn't "how do we do stablecoins," it's "how do we make settlement work for a mobile-first user in a market where connectivity and trust can't be assumed." Harder design problem than either has faced at home. worth reading with the obvious caveat: It's an executive at the company positioned to sell that exact expertise making the argument. Doesn't make the point wrong, just worth knowing whose thesis it is before repeating it.

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  Stany Ignas (@itsstanyy) reported 20 minutes ago

  A lot of people have been asking how I got my international clients so here's the story • No I didn't get them from Fiverr or Upwork • I didn't cold DM this client either • It was honestly luck mixed with consistency One of my posts went viral the client saw my work liked what I was building and reached out to me A few other questions I keep getting • How did they trust you? I showed my previous work and communicated well throughout the project • How did you get paid? Since I'm 17 and can't use PayPal on my own yet the payment was sent through Remitly directly to my bank account using UPI • Do you need to be an expert? Definitely not You just need to be good enough to solve someone's problem and keep improving My biggest takeaway is to post your work consistently You never know who's watching One post can change everything

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  Oliver's Mum (@BBnBeatles) reported 20 minutes ago

  @hamsterwatch I am finally in a position to tip but PayPal is not working when I click it. Just spins. Can you please dm me your PayPal link! 🙏

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  Bull Theory (@BullTheoryio) reported 22 minutes ago

  Bill Gates daughter runs a shopping app that secretly took credit for sales it never made. Here's what happened: When you buy something online after clicking a link from a website or app, that website or app gets a small cut of the sale from the store, as a thank you for sending you there. It only gets that money if it actually sent you there. Phia is a shopping app made by Phoebe Gates, daughter of Bill Gates, and her co-founder Sophia Kianni. It tells you where to find the cheapest price and best discount codes. It has 1.2 million downloads in the last year and raised $43.5 million from investors, including Kleiner Perkins, Khosla Ventures, and celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, Khloe Kardashian, and Hailey Bieber. Bloomberg tested the app along with a researcher named Ben Edelman and a rival app called Capital One Shopping. They checked more than 50 shopping websites, including Walmart, Nike, and Zara. Here is what they found. When someone was about to finish buying something, Phia's app secretly opened a hidden browser tab in the background, without the person clicking anything or asking for it. That hidden tab quietly told the store "this sale came from Phia," then closed itself within seconds. Most people never saw it happen. This means Phia could take the money back reward even if a person found the item completely on their own, or even if they clicked a link from a totally different website first. In one test, someone clicked a deal link from a Wirecutter article to buy something on Nordstrom. Phia's hidden tab quietly swapped in its own code and took the reward meant for Wirecutter instead. This trick is called cookie stuffing. It is against the rules of every major store and shopping network involved, including Walmart, eBay, and a platform called Impact(.)com. Impact(.)com has already suspended Phia's account and is now checking Phia's past sales to see how many were affected. Phia says this was a mistake in their code from December, and they fixed it within a day of being told about it. This is not Phia's first problem. Back in November, researchers found an older version of the app was secretly copying entire webpages a person visited, including bank statements and private emails, and sending that data to Phia's servers. The company said it was only trying to figure out which websites were shopping sites, and it has since changed the app to stop doing that. A similar accusation happened to PayPal's Honey app in 2024, and PayPal is still dealing with a lawsuit over it today. Phia is now facing the exact same kind of accusation, in just its first year.

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  SP (@0xSpresearch) reported 25 minutes ago

  I bet your mom has never used a crypto app. Mine hasn’t either. But she already uses: WhatsApp✅ Banking apps✅ GPay✅ PayPal✅ So the problem isn't that moms can't use financial apps. Crypto apps simply weren’t designed for them. Now imagine you work thousands of miles away and send money home every month. An app helps you send it. Your mom receives it. And the app’s job is done. But your family’s financial needs aren’t. What if the same app stayed useful after the money arrived? That’s the startup: a financial home for families living across borders. Remittance is just the beginning. Here’s what @SumiroStudio should build on Solana 🧵👇

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  Dr. Mauser (@Dr_Mauser) reported 26 minutes ago

  @Redchief000 @monsterhunter45 When I get big enough that this is an issue, I'll put a little paypal widget on my site for absolution.

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  TheDungeonDelver (@A_DungeonDelver) reported 27 minutes ago

  @RaltsAuthor You should. You don't know me except here and our occasional communication on YouTube, but I had a friend, a dear, wonderful friend whom I miss every day. His name was Eric and he was one of the programmers of Mechwarrior 2 from Activision back in the 1990s. Before GoFundMe, before anything much other than PayPal was a going concern, when I heard about his health problems - before I even really got to know him - I wanted to help. Because I'd gotten tons of fun out of MW2, and he seemed like a decent guy. He was working on a 3d terrain generator, procedural that is, that was based on what he'd done with 3d graphics in MW2 and at that time you had to sell something to get money on PayPal so we set up a donationware download point and put a PayPal button on it. It helped he and his wife get through a drought until SSDI kicked in. Open the GoFundMe. It's not begging; there's people who care about you, bet.