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A few weeks ago they canceled my Paypal payment subscription due to "technical reasons" and now it seems like only credit card payments are available anymore.

This is a little scary because credit cards are not that common here in Europe and having such sudden changes it not confidence-building.

Luckily, I use my own domain and if Fastmail turns too unreliable, I can just switch to an other provider and point my DNS entries over to them.

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Where are credit cards not that common in Europe? I don’t think I no a single person that doesn’t have one and most banks even give you a free Visa card (prepaid) with your normal bank account in Germany.

Pretty uncommon in the Netherlands. Yes you can get one, but most people here don't have one, possibly due to very few merchants accepting them, and when they do, they pass the CC fees to the consumer

> Nevertheless, around 55% of the Dutch population has at least one credit card, which they mainly use during holidays abroad or when shopping online.

Not as high as I expected it to be honest but the article is pretty interesting. Apparently people have them but don't use them because they are not widely accepted in stores and they are very debt averse.

Source: https://www.dutchnews.nl/features/2018/01/credit-cards-not-y...

Exactly. The modern aspect of bank cards is much more present on Europe than in the US (chip, contactless,...)

I would say however (from personal experience which may be biaised) that cards in Germany are less welcome than in other EU countries (for historical privacy reasons)

Not quite, Fastmail does support PayPal. Fastmail no longer supports PayPal subscriptions. You can still manually make payments via the PayPal option, but if you want the convienence of automatic billing a credit card is required.

source: I work at Fastmail.

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