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BuyMeACoffee silently dropped support for many countries (2024)

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329 points beeburrt | 1 comments | 16 May 25 06:23 UTC | HN request time: 0.212s | 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. AnthonyMouse ◴[16 May 25 19:03 UTC] No.44008791[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.

"It's a private service so they can do what they want" is missing the issue. Every private service in the jurisdiction is under the same legal constraints, so if the law is creating the incentive for them to screw their users, that is a problem with the law. Because then they all have the same incentive and converge on the same behavior and the usual defense to customer abuse by private companies -- switching to a competitor -- isn't available as a remedy.