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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Patreon (ranty question) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I wanna sign up for Patreon. Reason is, to give money to some podcasters, musicians, OSS authors. Ppl I think are doing good things. That's how they accept donations.

But was there a privacy clusterfuck? Of course there was!

In October 2015, the site was the target of a large cyber-attack, with almost 15 gigabytes of password data, donation records, and source code taken and published. The breach exposed more than 2.3 million unique e-mail addresses and millions of private messages. Following the attack, some patrons received extortion emails ...

I tried to signup privately. I only want to give money to ppl. Well if you use a VPN you get a total cloudfare gauntlet. Every page load, prove you are human! You can sign up with a masked card and a VPN, but they insta-ban you. Before you can sign-in even once, acct is locked.

Has anyone signed up in a kinda private way? How?

I can't "just use this one cryptocurrency bro" b/c the creators I want to give money to only are on Patreon.

FFS. I'm trying to give money away! I don't have to, but I belive we should support ppl doing good things for the world. Can't even do that privtaely I guess.

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[–] aurion@piefed.aurionblack.com 7 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I see your reasoning and it makes sense

But it seems that policy is very…one sided and not effective

Loopholes for the really bad shit. Regulations, penalties, and headache for the independent creator

[–] marcela@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 weeks ago

I think that there is no way to tell between legit privacy-conscious folk and bad actors. I am also pissed about it, but from a server's perspective there is no difference between us and malicious users.

I don't think the creators themselves can receive money privately either. This also is a privacy risk, and a broader risk of doxing or extortion if they make "undesired" content.

But there is no way to receive money anonymously that it isn't "technically money laundering". That's my 2 cents.