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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

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328 points beeburrt | 2 comments | 16 May 25 06:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.424s | source
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EZ-E ◴[16 May 25 06:59 UTC] No.44002516[source]▶
Potentially unpopular opinion but ultimately it's a private service and they decided to disable payout methods which negatively affects Ukrainian users for the sake of integrating new changes/avoiding legal risk. They don't have to support all countries. I feel sorry for the users though, especially I imagine by asking supporters to move to another platform will result in some of them dropping which is the result of platform lock in..
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1. cryptonym ◴[16 May 25 07:14 UTC] No.44002581[source]▶
You are right, they probably don't have to, or that would be basis for legal action.

Customers should also be allowed to expose shady stuff done by such private services, warning other people.

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2. EZ-E ◴[16 May 25 08:24 UTC] No.44002995[source]▶
Right, just that from the article I get the vibe that the author makes the case Ukraine got blocked while it's the result of dropping a payment provider, not policy that singles out Ukraine