Did you follow the tutorial I posted? If so, the English-translated part may not have the right terminology. I followed the instructions on the linked website: https://www.404media.co/paypal-personalized-shopping-opt-out/. I suppose, this is appliccable worldwide.
To me, it is. I don’t have a credit card - I never got one offered by my bank (…which makes one think…). Back in the “early days” (early 2000s - mostly on Ebay) it was quite common to recieve the bank information of the seller after purchase. Then I had to wire the money to the sellers’ account. There was no online banking. It could take up to a week to wire the money. After the seller recieved the payment, the ordered item got sent with postal service. When Paypal was introduced, it was a game changer: the seller recieved the money instantly, and could send the purchased item right away.
- Einloggen
- Herunterscrollen und unten auf der Seite den Link „Datenschutz“ anklicken
- dann bei Datenschutz festlegen den Link „Datenschutzeinstellungen“ anklicken
- dann das Feld „Interessenbasierte Werbung“ anklicken
- auf jeden der beiden Einträge klicken und den Schalter jeweils auf „aus“ schalten
. Translated from the above:
- Log in
- Scroll down and click on the “Privacy” link at the bottom of the page
- then click on the “Privacy settings” link under Data & Privacy
- then click on the “Interest-based advertising” (Personalized shopping) field
- click on each of the two entries and set the switch to “off” in each case
I think it is important to have cash as a backup.
A couple of years ago there were some issues with card reading terminals in Germany. Due to a faulty security certificate these card reading terminals were not operational for about a whole month. Many stores were affected, because they almost all use ones from the same manufacturer. The only reason why it wasn’t such a big deal was that people were carrying cash around anyway and were able to switch the method of payment easily. Having cash worked as a backup.
I live in Germany.