Itch.io are seeking out new payment processors who are more comfortable with adult material

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• schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The problem with pro-censorship activism is that pro-censorship activists will find out where something they want to censor is now hosted and then go after that with the same methods they used for the place it was previously hosted on.

  This wasn’t about gaming, but explains the methods: slatestarcodex.com/…/rip-culture-war-thread/

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  • dastanktal@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Personally, I think these sites should do a thing with cryptocurrency so that you buy crypto with your card and then use that to buy the games. So that way the payment processor can’t get mad at you.

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    • AceFuzzLord@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What’s stoping a group like Collective Shout from then forcing the payment processors from going after whatever web domain registrar they get their name from? Or, assuming they don’t use their own hardware, which is extremely likely, that they go after whoever they go through for hosting their website?

      As great of an idea as just switching payment processors is, that won’t stop those puritanical pricks because they’ll just switch targets and get the whole website/service taken down if it means fulfilling their Satan guided goals being done in the name of Jesus.

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• Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is the way.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It's great if you can convince all of your customers to use a new payment service. Most businesses are not gonna go anywhere near that. They don't care.

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    • Gsus4@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah, but having a Visa/Mastercard duopoly is already a precarious position. This is just the canary in the coalmine.

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    • scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s important to know that it may not be visa and MasterCard directly, but rather Stripe, a popular middleware that provides an easy API for developers to access the card networks. To a user it’d be more or less transparent if they’re just swapping them out

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• zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hate to say it, but this would be one use case where crypto currencies would be ideal. Or any other decentralized solution.

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Taler Wallet

    https://www.taler.net/en/index.html

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    • zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Oh right. I keep on forgetting about this awesome project. Now I wonder why it is not successful and I fear the lobbyism of banking and payment providers is just too good.

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    • JohnWorks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      First I’m hearing of this. I don’t really understand how it works? From what I’ve read it says it’ll take your money to some exchange and then give you an anonymous digital version in the app/account. I’m assuming it’s not as simple as putting a card in and being able to buy something like on Amazon or something. Both the seller and buyer need to use it right?

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• AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are there any which interface with different national banking systems and allow payment from those without going through the credit card payment infrastructure, which has become a universal choke point? Or are they talking about accepting Monero or something?

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  • Ava@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There are several companies that provide access to bank payments, but they all tend to have substantial limits, especially for US banking.

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