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ThePhysicist ◴[] No.27301428[source]
Their German counterpart, Sofortüberweisung, didn't properly blacklist test credentials given out by banks e.g. to developers in the beginning, so people could simply use those and pay for goods and services with fake accounts.

For me there are so many red flags with all these services, as they basically "steal" your credentials to log into your online banking. And while they claim that they only use the credentials to make transfers they could as well look at all my other account data. I really wonder how such a scheme can be legal and how banks can allow this, as they normally tell people to never give their credentials to anyone. The situation of course recently improved with the mandated 2FA for logins and transfers, but still there are so many attack vectors in this model that it boggles my mind how it can still exist.

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1. rbmks ◴[] No.27301648[source]
I cancel every online order if I find out that it is handled by PayPal, Klarna, Mollie or other data collecting entities.

The situation in Europe is so bad that you are sometimes tricked into a prepaid order only to find out that the invoice comes from one of those.

The appropriate penalty is immediate cancellation and multiple GDPR requests.

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2. thomasikzelf ◴[] No.27308290[source]
I looked through the terms of use and the privacy policy for Mollie and I don't think they are selling data. Do you have different information then I have?