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wasoxygen  ·  2948 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Please consider donating. Please?

I trust the Hubski crew. I sort of trust Stripe. I see the https protocol and the reassuring little padlock icon on the donate page.

But every time I start typing digits into that janky HTML form I get twitchy and close the tab. It's the same credit card I handed to a random camarero in Mexico City. I don't know what's wrong with me. I just can't do it.

I have some PayPal credit. I don't especially like PayPal and there are reasons to mistrust them. But I like to prowl eBay and it's just easier with PayPal. I've donated bitcoin, but bitcoin is a pain to acquire and I'd prefer to hold what I have left.

PayPal makes it look easy.

Convincing them Hubski is nonprofit involves some red tape, but that might be avoidable in the near term: "We make it easy to set up your site to take payments but to withdraw more than $500 a month you will need to verify your account."

They even support recurring donations.