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Why not paypal? I remember in the early 2000s even the most dusty geocities sites having paypal buttons.


Paypals policy bans using it for payment of any digital adult content [0]. Many artists still use it for nsfw commissions, but every payment is a risk of getting your entire account banned simply due to a bad comment in the note field.

[0] https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-is-paypal%E...


Their policy prohibits "certain sexually oriented materials or services".

https://www.paypal.com/en/webapps/mpp/ua/acceptableuse-full


I feel like you could just sell an access code that allows you to download content rather than the content itself and be perfectly within paypals acceptable use policies.


You _might_ get away with that for a short while, but a fairly trivial account review would result in a funds freeze at the minimum.




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