Mastercard and Visa Start Banning VPN Providers

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Following the introduction of restrictions against file-sharing services, Mastercard and Visa have now started to take action against VPN providers. This week, Swedish payment provider Payson cut access to anonymizing services after being ordered to do so by the credit card companies. VPN provider iPredator is one of the affected customers and founder Peter Sunde says that they are considering legal action to get the service unblocked.

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This is getting silly now. Yeah there are other options of paying but the principle of the US getting these companies to block payments to whoever they want needs to be questioned.

Wikileaks won its court case against the withholding of payments before, which can be used as a precedence if the owners fight this action.

Presumably you could just use your card through PayPal, Google Wallet or Amazon Payments and Visa/MC wouldn't have a clue what you've bought?

loads of legit reason for VPN even watching Netflix is good enough or the accounts would be different they obviously do not mind

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my vpn provider still offers paypal

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

Presumably you could just use your card through PayPal, Google Wallet or Amazon Payments and Visa/MC wouldn't have a clue what you've bought?

Not sure to be honest. The newsgroup indexing sites started having problems after the payment options started being withdrawn but paypal was the main issue as they were involved. If paypal does the same with VPN's then that really is a kick in the gonads.

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Originally Posted by tizmeinnit

my vpn provider still offers paypal

Fingers crossed it stays that way!

I use many different VPN's for many different things but only actually pay for one of them. That one is paid over another VPN with a pre-paid card number purchased from a paypoint shop with cash. If that VPN provider loses paypal, visa and mastercard, it still has another 80+ different payment methods although many are country specific.