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.

  • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    If people cant receive my money in a way that is acceptable to me, they dont get it. I dont do recurring fees, i dont want platform accounts. If you cant just make a sale or receive a donation without those things, you are part of the problem.

    • FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I get where you are coming from.

      Thing is, these are like… a history podcaster. My guy’s not plugged into the privacy community at all. Prob knows nada about any of this. And frankly it wouldn’t even be worth his time. He’d get what, a handful more donations? Wouldn’t even cover his time to figure out a private payment opt.

      I want there to be more private methods too. But I gotta balance that against, I also want to support creators I like.

      • GMac@feddit.orgEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        My drivers are more focussed on the proposition and payment profile

        Private payment is harder. I dont have solution for that except that if i dont truat them enough to use a virtual card then they need to do more work to earn trust if they want paid.

        Its not about making a channel that wont pay enough, just picking one with a respectful design that doesnt rely on dark patterns. That should not be that difficult. It is mostly satisfued with a simple one time transaction.