Unfortunately they are indeed big players, Stripe where people use credit cards and PayPal everywhere else. Both horrible companies that we’d be a lot better off if replaced with privacy-respecting alternatives.
I mainly use PayPal as a necessary evil so I don’t have to pull out my wallet and put the card info in every time I want to buy a game. I dunno maybe I SHOULD go back to that because then only the games that are worth the effort of getting up off the couch are the ones I’d buy.
Another commenter already posted about steam saving card info, but I’ll make a nod to a password manager if you’re not already using one.
First of all, if you aren’t you should be, there’s plenty of awesome free ones. I like keepass or keepassXC. They’re cross platform and you can sync them across devices or use some form of cloud sync (not recommended by me but plenty of people do it).
Anyways. Within a password manager you can save card info (anything actually) and so you don’t have to pull out your physical wallet, just input your manager password and copy/paste over the card details. For me it’s just about as fast as using PayPal anyways with all the extra windows, redirects, loading times, and me using a 2fa token etc.
Steam remembers my card, so I don’t have to input it there everytime. I get that you wouldn’t want to put your card info somewhere shady, but Steam is not that. Also, most banks nowadays have virtual cards you can use for that sort of thing, some even have one use cards that self destroy after a single purchase. So the safety that PayPal used to offer is not that important anymore.
Unfortunately they are indeed big players, Stripe where people use credit cards and PayPal everywhere else. Both horrible companies that we’d be a lot better off if replaced with privacy-respecting alternatives.
I mainly use PayPal as a necessary evil so I don’t have to pull out my wallet and put the card info in every time I want to buy a game. I dunno maybe I SHOULD go back to that because then only the games that are worth the effort of getting up off the couch are the ones I’d buy.
Another commenter already posted about steam saving card info, but I’ll make a nod to a password manager if you’re not already using one.
First of all, if you aren’t you should be, there’s plenty of awesome free ones. I like keepass or keepassXC. They’re cross platform and you can sync them across devices or use some form of cloud sync (not recommended by me but plenty of people do it).
Anyways. Within a password manager you can save card info (anything actually) and so you don’t have to pull out your physical wallet, just input your manager password and copy/paste over the card details. For me it’s just about as fast as using PayPal anyways with all the extra windows, redirects, loading times, and me using a 2fa token etc.
Steam remembers my card, so I don’t have to input it there everytime. I get that you wouldn’t want to put your card info somewhere shady, but Steam is not that. Also, most banks nowadays have virtual cards you can use for that sort of thing, some even have one use cards that self destroy after a single purchase. So the safety that PayPal used to offer is not that important anymore.
You can just save your card info in steam. No need for paypal for that.
Honeslty i am not sure what paypal is even for anymore
Ive literally never used PayPal. I didnt trust it in the early days, and by the time online shopping was normal there were far easier alternatives.