PayPal is a great service, leading the charge towards a digital currency that skips over borders. Unfortunately, they too have fallen towards the sentiment that your private information shoudl be public by default to further “advertising and marketing.”
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This is enabled by default. I had to read halfway down through a muti-page email they sent me today before I found out about it. (Only because the email mentioned the word “Errors” which when associated with PayPal, perks my ears up!)
Anytime my information is being used by other companies, I want to know about it – Up front, right away. Unfortunately, I have come to expect that I won’t.
You can disable the PayPal sharing under My Account > More Options > Notifications