Paypal status: access issues and outage reports

Problems in the last 24 hours

The graph below depicts the number of Paypal reports received over the last 24 hours by time of day. When the number of reports exceeds the baseline, represented by the red line, an outage is determined.

Most Reported Problems

The following are the most recent problems reported by Paypal users through our website.

• Sign in (44%)
• Errors (34%)
• Website Down (22%)

Live Outage Map

The most recent Paypal outage reports came from the following cities:

City	Problem Type	Report Time
Lyon	Website Down	4 hours ago
Hildesheim	Sign in	5 hours ago
Châteauroux	Website Down	2 days ago
Frankfurt am Main	Errors	4 days ago
Athis-Mons	Errors	4 days ago
Perth	Sign in	5 days ago

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Paypal Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

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  rys || vgen comms open!!! || (@rysorchid_) reported 12 minutes ago

  @chadopts ( ´-｀)my PayPal asked to verify some infos too. I did still haven't heard back. I hope the issue gets fixed soon

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  Keng N (@0xKeng) reported 13 minutes ago

  PAYPAL GETS HAMMERED $PYPL is down around 13% after Stripe and Advent International walked away from their $53 BILLION takeover bid. The offer was roughly $60.50 per share, backed by around $50B in bank financing — a deal that could have ranked among the largest leveraged buyouts ever. PayPal reportedly viewed the bid as too low. The market was betting Stripe & Advent would come back with a higher offer. They didn’t. Now the takeover premium is gone — and PayPal is left to prove that its turnaround is worth more than $53B on its own. The market just delivered its verdict. 📉

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  jordan johnson (@jordanj556) reported 15 minutes ago

  @Adiofreak PayPal, is a gang of thieves. If you haven't accidently broken some policy to them yet, you'll be asking how something is your fault when it is used to steal from you.

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  SueWallSt (@SueWallSt) reported 19 minutes ago

  🔻 DROP DESK: $PYPL PayPal said $53 billion wasn’t enough. Now it might get nothing. Shares are down ~14%+ this morning after Advent and Stripe reportedly walked away from a potential takeover. The group had offered $60.50 per share, valuing PayPal at roughly $53 billion. PayPal’s board thought the price was too low. The problem? Shares had already climbed nearly 30% after takeover reports surfaced. Now the buyer is gone. For context, PayPal was worth roughly $360 billion at its 2021 peak. The abandoned offer valued it at about $53 billion. That’s one hell of a reset. Stocks don’t drop for no reason.

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  Shubham Mali (@hackwithshubham) reported 20 minutes ago

  Received my first bug bounty reward as a security researcher, but PayPal has now placed a permanent limitation on my account. I’ve already completed KYC and submitted all the requested documents. @PayPal @AskPayPal Please look into this and help resolve the issue.

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  Mimi (@mimicomments) reported 20 minutes ago

  @DrewPavlou Perhaps you could set up something simple like a buy me a coffee or paypal me link so people can support you directly. The Flynn issue seems hopeless for now. I hope that can eventually get resolves but seems you need to have a way for people to support you in general:

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  Simon Moz (@SimonSoundz) reported 21 minutes ago

  @adelahub Another pre-sale won't fix anything. I've tried the album pre-order pre-sale, Telekom pre-sale, PayPal pre-sale, all for nothing. 🙃 Something needs to change in the system.

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  CaptTriage (@CaptTriage) reported 25 minutes ago

  OK, hear me out. The next directional Moderna esque arbitrage play will be Musk throwing down the gauntlet and putting in an offer for PayPal. Chances are this won’t happen but wouldn’t that be something. PYPL MRNA

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  Roxfan (@Roxfan_13) reported 28 minutes ago

  @Genki_JPN Anyone else having issues pre-ordering? Paypal refuses to use my Mastercard, direct payment redirects to PayPal

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  ari 🫧 (@pinkeomii) reported 28 minutes ago

  came to the conclusion that it is my cards and not my paypal cuz it wouldn’t let me use another app either so if it’s still not working by the time i wake up ill contact my bank AGAIN

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  Noobverest Rice King (@Noobverest) reported 29 minutes ago

  @MsVeilMoney If you're bad at budgeting and paying it back yes Credit cards are great as an extra layer of security over debit cause you can issue chargebacks and stuff. It's why paypal was cool once upon a time

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  Alice (@Alice_Explorer9) reported 33 minutes ago

  @BullTheoryio PayPal turned down over $50 billion thinking the buyers would raise their number, and instead the whole thing just disappeared. Now the stock is down 12% and that massive LBO never happened. Feels like they misread how serious the other side was about walking

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  Elizabeth 📜 (@AwkwardPancake) reported 34 minutes ago

  I sent a support ticket to the PaidViewpoint people earlier today about PayPal no longer being a cash out option and they basically told me they're having an issue with their PayPal payment processor and they're hoping to get it back to working within 5-7 days.

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  Tech Stox (@techstox) reported 36 minutes ago

  PayPal turned down a $60.50 buyout. Stock is ~$54 pre-market after the buyers walked. Yesterday it closed $61. The run-up this summer was a Q2 beat plus “someone might take this private.” One of those just died. What’s left is a payments company still losing checkout share to Apple and Google, half a year into a new CEO, and no bid sitting under the price. Bloomberg says the group could come back. The stock got expensive relative to $60.50 - which is why they left. Cheaper from here, that math changes again. Did the board overplay it, or refuse to sell too cheap?

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  Arcane | Artificial Intelligence (@Arcane_Aii) reported 36 minutes ago

  If someone hacks your Gmail, they don't need your passwords. They can reset everything. Bank. Instagram. Apple ID. Crypto. PayPal. Password manager. Your Gmail isn't email. It's the master key to your entire life. Here's how to lock it down in 10 minutes: 🧵

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  Chaos🔞Comms Open (@ChaosReverb) reported 39 minutes ago

  @Aerea_caeles If you're referring to what happened to what happens around February when my PayPal account was stolen by my ex-bestfriend, I asked the clients to please request refunds from PayPal immediately several times because I never had access to that account again. I explained the topic in detail here and on Instagram. Some people completed the process and received their money back without any problems. There were 2 people who had problems with their banks, one ghosted me when I tried to explain to the that they should insist with PayPal, another commission never responded to my progress reports, and another asked me to do their commission because I think the bank didn't want to give them their money back and I did it without any problem ª In fact, I still have the records.

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  Zen (@itZen00) reported 41 minutes ago

  visa just tightened the number that can freeze your store. most sellers have no idea it moved. the numbers: 1. visa's threshold dropped to 1.5% this year 2. stripe caps around 0.5% 3. shopify payments and paypal sit closer to 1% your real danger line is probably tighter than whatever you've been told. cross it and you're not getting a warning. you're getting: - a reserve hold on 20% of payouts - or a full shutdown while the money you already made sits frozen. the fix isn't clever, it's boring: 1. respond to every support ticket inside 12 hours 2. run every ad claim through one test — would this survive your own mother reading it most flags trace back to one of those two. not the product.

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  Compsci Guy🇺🇲 (@compsciman) reported 42 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 Just to verify that this issue still exists. I intentionally logged out of PayPal while my password manager was still enabled. I closed and then reopened it. Then it began crashing. Disabling the password manager (with protection compatibility still enabled) temporarily fixed it

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  Stephen Urbanik (@UrbanikStephen) reported 44 minutes ago

  @BestBallJunkie @Underdog Well a free PayPal debit card would solve the problem here

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  Morpheu5 Stock Watcher (@Morpheu5Watcher) reported 44 minutes ago

  PAYPAL $PYPL LOST $8.2 BILLION OVERNIGHT. S&P 500 FUTURES ARE DOWN 2.75 POINTS: PayPal PYPL at $51.86 (premarket), -$9.61 / -15.6% from Thursday's $61.47 close. The San Jose company runs the payment button at online checkouts, plus Venmo and Braintree. Bloomberg News reported that the group trying to buy the entire company - the private-equity firm Advent International and the privately held payments company Stripe - has dropped the pursuit. PayPal, Stripe and Advent each declined to comment. So a 15.6% fall is happening this morning on a news report that none of the three companies involved has confirmed. Multiply that $9.61 by the 855.5M PayPal shares in existence and about $8.2B of market value - one share's price times every share, the whole company's price tag - went missing between Thursday's closing bell and this sentence. Now look at what the American futures board did with it. Index futures are contracts on where an index will trade at a set date later on. They run all night, which makes them the earliest and least reliable clue about where the 9:30am ET opening bell lands. - Dow futures: 53,637.00, +16.00 pts / +0.03%. - S&P 500 futures: 7,739.75, -2.75 pts / -0.04%. - Nasdaq-100 futures: 29,611.50, -84.25 pts / -0.28%. - Russell 2000 futures: 3,014.70, -4.30 pts / -0.14%. WHY $8.2 BILLION BARELY REGISTERS An index is an average, and an average is a machine for making one loud number quiet. The S&P 500 tracks 500 companies. PayPal was worth $52.6B at Thursday's close - real money, and a modest slice of that crowd. Spread one company's worst night of the year across 499 others having an ordinary one and you get 2.75 points. The funds that hold those baskets say the same thing. SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust, ticker SPY, at $771.06 (premarket), -$0.04 / -0.01% from Thursday's $771.10 close. Four cents. Invesco QQQ Trust, ticker QQQ, at $719.07 (premarket), -$2.04 / -0.28% from $721.11 - it tracks the Nasdaq-100, a much shorter list, and PayPal is on it. That is most of the split on the board above. The Dow contract is the green one because the Dow holds 30 companies, and neither of this morning's two big fallers is among them. THE OTHER FALLER IS THE BIGGER INDEX EVENT Marvell Technology at $221.24 (premarket), -$20.21 / -8.4% from Thursday's $241.45 close. The Wilmington, Delaware company designs the chips that shuttle data around inside a data center - the plumbing of the AI build-out rather than the processors that get the headlines. It reported its fiscal second quarter Thursday after the close: record revenue - money coming in the door - of $2.739B, +37% from a year earlier and +13% from the previous three months; adjusted profit per share, meaning earnings with certain one-time items set aside, of $0.94. Both cleared what analysts expected. Management then raised its own map twice over, to about $12B of revenue this fiscal year from about $11.5B, and to about $18B next year from about $16.5B. The stock is down 8.4% anyway, and the reason is the price it was already carrying. Marvell has climbed roughly 28% in a month and sits 260% above the $61.44 it traded at last September 4. A beat of about 1% does not pay for a run like that. Here is why it matters more than PayPal to the board above. Marvell is worth about $211.5B, four times PayPal's size, so an 8.4% fall is roughly $17.7B - more than twice the money that came off PayPal - and Marvell sits on that same short Nasdaq-100 list. Two names, one index, and the technology-heavy contract being the reddest thing on the screen stops being a mystery. EUROPE IS GREEN AND NONE OF IT IS CROSSING - CAC 40 (France): 8,401, +81.03 pts / +0.97%. - DAX (Germany): 26,495, +127.46 pts / +0.48%. - FTSE 100 (UK): 10,810, +17.00 pts / +0.16%. Paris is leading the continent on a morning its own inflation reading got hotter. INSEE, France's national statistics agency, put its first estimate of August consumer prices at 2.7% above a year earlier on the harmonised measure - the version built so euro-area countries can be compared like for like - up from 2.4% in July, with energy prices running 16.7% above a year ago. Separately, Fitch Ratings, one of the three big agencies that grade how likely a government is to repay what it borrows, reviews France today; it cut that grade from AA- to A+ on September 13, 2025. A market up nearly a percent into both of those is not one braced for either. Europe still has three and a half hours of its own session left to change its mind. THE EMPTY 8:30 AND THE CROWDED 10:00 Most mornings a government data release lands at 8:30am ET and futures reprice on it in the hour before the bell. Today that slot is empty. Nothing scheduled arrives between now and the open, which is a large part of why those four contracts have barely moved since dawn. Then 10:00am ET, half an hour after the bell, two things land together. - The University of Michigan's Surveys of Consumers publishes its final August reading - a monthly survey asking American households how they feel about their own money and the wider economy, scored as an index. The preliminary reading was 51.0 against about 54.5 expected, -7.6% from July, with households penciling in 4.3% price rises over the coming year. - Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh gives his first keynote as chair at the Kansas City Fed's annual symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. He speaks two days after the Bureau of Economic Analysis put the personal consumption expenditures price index for July - the inflation gauge the Fed watches most closely, because it follows what people actually buy - at 3.7% above a year earlier, unchanged from June and hotter than the 3.6% economists expected. New York is coming off a strong Thursday, which is worth holding beside all of the above: the S&P 500 closed at 7,730.99, +55.29 pts / +0.72%, and the Nasdaq-100 at 29,641.56, +417.04 pts / +1.43%. Hold every overnight figure loosely, though. Pre-dawn trading is thin, so a move made by few participants gets undone by few, and nothing printed before sunrise owes anybody a promise it survives to 9:30am. Two dates ahead of that: Monday is month-end, when funds adjust holdings into the close and prices can move on housekeeping rather than news, and next Friday, September 4, the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes the August jobs report at 8:30am ET. That slot will not be empty. WHERE THESE TWO SIT PayPal is 40th of 46 on the Quality-Value Len5, the style that wants a durable business at a fair price. The fair-price half is loud this morning: at $51.86 the shares cost about 9.9 times the last year of profit, and the company keeps buying back its own stock, which quietly raises every remaining owner's slice. The durable half is the open question, and it has nothing to do with the deal. It comes from the July 28 report, where the total spent through PayPal's systems rose 10% while transaction margin dollars - the money PayPal keeps from each payment after the cost of moving it - rose 1%. Volume growing ten times faster than the money kept is the thing to watch; that gap closing settles the read, and another year of it widening breaks it. PayPal is on none of the other five. Deep-Value and Special-Situations hunts the genuinely cheap or a business carrying a dated event - there was an event, and this morning it evaporated, which is exactly why an unsigned offer is not something to lean on; a signed agreement with a closing date would change that. Momentum watches names already breaking out on news of their own, and a 15.6% fall on a stock 34.5% under the $79.215 it reached last October 28 is the opposite shape. Both growth styles want expansion you are not overpaying for, and mid-single-digit revenue growth with profit per share going backwards is not expansion. Income watches cash genuinely reaching owners, and what leaves here goes out through buybacks rather than a payout worth a real share of the price - a dividend that mattered against the share price is the change. Marvell is on none of the six. Both value styles want a fair price standing beside a durable business, and at about 84 times the last year of profit the price half is missing; a real markdown with data-center demand still growing would bring either into range. Both growth styles want expansion you are not overpaying for - the expansion is genuine at 37%, and the price is again the half that fails. Momentum watches names already breaking out on a live event of their own, and a company that posts a record quarter, raises two years of guidance and falls 8.4% anyway is the exact opposite shape; clearing the $329.88 it reached on June 18 on heavy volume would be the change. Income is settled on size, at $0.06 a quarter against a $221 share. Thursday's closing price of $61.47 was a bet that somebody would eventually pay more than the $60.50 a share on the table. This morning there is no offer, no statement from any of the three companies, and a stock 15.6% lower than it was at the bell. At 10:00am the newest Fed chair gives his first keynote at a symposium whose subject this year is what payments become next - and one of the country's largest payment companies will spend that hour finding out what it is worth standing on its own. Not investment advice.

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  Paras_ (@paras_vyas_) reported 44 minutes ago

  I think we're about to have a strange new version of SEO. Your next customer might not be the one reading your website. It might be their AI agent. Stripe's leadership is already talking about a future where traditional checkout pages become less important as AI agents handle purchases. Visa, Mastercard, PayPal and others are building the payment rails for this. That made me think about something else. Today we optimise websites for humans: Good copy. Good design. Fast pages. Clear CTAs But an AI agent may approach your business very differently. It may ask: - What exactly do you sell? - How much does it cost? - Is it available? - Can I trust this company? - What are the alternatives? - What happens if something goes wrong? And then make the recommendation for its human. So perhaps the next website optimisation question isn't only: “Will a visitor convert?” It may become: “Can a machine understand why this business is the right choice?” That's a very different problem. And I think there's a lot of room for small businesses and solo founders to get ahead of it. When I started my AI journey and designed my first landing page, I predicted a similar trend would emerge and become a major challenge for SaaS founders, digital marketers and agencies. This prediction eventually became a core insight about my website CRO audit tool, SiteRoast (link in bio). To share with you, this was one of the top 5 recommendations when I asked AI during my product research, and when it got ready, I did a self-audit of my page numerous times with AI, understood their findings and reasons behind them, thanked them for improvements and then made it better for my ICPs. Today, after 500+ hours of coding and fixing work, SiteRoast does CRO-level audits at a fraction of the cost, suggesting step-by-step, priority-wise fixes with a ready-to-share PDF for your internal team in 60 Seconds. It's also available as a white-label product for agencies. SiteRoast is the only product in the market that does that.

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  Deeman trades (@deemancpa) reported 45 minutes ago

  $PYPL part 2 Business is fine — rev +8%, FCF +179%, 10x earnings, 12% FCF yield. What vanished overnight was the $60.50 buyer. Now the market has to value PayPal on its own: a slow-growth, shrinking-take-rate payments co with a 5-month-old CEO and Apple/Stripe/Visa eating share. Bulls: ~7x FCF for Venmo + PayPal brands is Business is fine — rev +8%, FCF +179%, 10x earnings, 12% FCF yield. What vanished overnight was the $60.50 buyer. Now the market has to value PayPal on its own: a slow-growth, shrinking-take-rate payments co with a 5-month-old CEO and Apple/Stripe/Visa eating share. Bulls: ~7x FCF for Venmo + PayPal brands is cheap. Board said no because they think it’s worth more. Bears: 3-month rally was pure deal premium. Pre-bid price was mid-$40s. $47 support, then $38. Translation: no floor from a buyer anymore. The turnaround has to prove it. Not financial advice. . Board said no because they think it’s worth more. Bears: 3-month rally was pure deal premium. Pre-bid price was mid-$40s. $47 support, then $38. Translation: no floor from a buyer anymore. The turnaround has to prove it. Not financial advice.

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  CHItrader (@CHItrader) reported 48 minutes ago

  PAYPAL LOSES THE BIDDER $PYPL is getting the deal premium ripped out after Advent and Stripe walked from a $60.50 / ~$53B tilt. Stock closed $61.47. Premarket is sitting around $53, down ~13–15%. 🔹 Board already called the bid light 🔹 Rally this quarter was the rumor. Now it’s the business

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  𖤐jae𖤐 (@CRYPTICL0SER) reported 51 minutes ago

  So I got the job the only issue is that I need clothes they said they'll be giving me the shirts but I don't have any black jeans and we need too wear all black If anyone will help me my PayPal is jae020604 thanks

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  indie🐈‍⬛ is in forced recov💔 (@biscoffoats12) reported 52 minutes ago

  depop and PayPal are so useless I have issues with payment every time, I bought those shoes and got charged $170 TWICE but the seller hasn't even got my payment on PayPal? it's so hard to file a dispute and you have to wait ages to hear back wtf I'm not buying from depop anymore

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  LunaProdu (@LunaProdu) reported 52 minutes ago

  I guess my paypal issue wasn't isolated.. Its a common thing happened to almost every users huh? My paypal was like 20+ years old.. Everything worked just fine.. Then they decided to implement AI to their website to cut corners.. Suddenly mass banning happening that include mine.. No warning, no notify.. Just instantly blocked my account AFTER i received a commission money.. So the money got stuck and cannot be cash out whatsoever (need at least $ 10 to cash out and i have like 8 atm)

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  Cadillac Ceryss #smokefleet #nafo (@SerlyFilya) reported 53 minutes ago

  @Mutualaidboost_ I haven't been able to work for about 2 years now due to sudden health complications needing surgery. This one illness has destroyed my husband and I financially. The injection I need isn't covered by my insurance and costs $500 month. Now my husband gets paid and after bills there like $100 left for food for 2 weeks. We have been living on cereal, cheap frozen pizzas and hot dogs. Sometimes I dont eat for a few days so the food lasts longer. If we could any donation to help out, We would be so thankful! Hopefully these gas and grocery prices go down and I get healthy enough to work again. I dont even know how much to ask for...$500 or $1000? Here is my PayPal QR code.

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  Moodtrack Diary (@MoodtrackDiary) reported 54 minutes ago

  @drewwash @braintree @PayPal I asked support and they recommended holding off on refunds for now as a recovery effort is underway and should include refunding or crediting incorrect charges. They also said it's a P1 issue and they are targeting resolution for end of day today.

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  Patrick ⚓️🇺🇸 (@lowtide1985) reported 55 minutes ago

  @stphnmaher It’s gonna be a little more involved than you think- If Canada’s goal is true technological independence from the United States, a Canadian sovereign cloud is only the first piece of an enormous puzzle: Canada would have to replace or become independent of Amazon/AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle for cloud; NVIDIA, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Marvell, Micron, Texas Instruments, Analog Devices and GlobalFoundries for processors, AI accelerators, memory, networking, communications and other semiconductors; Dell, HPE, Supermicro, IBM, Western Digital and Seagate for servers, storage and enterprise hardware; Cisco, Arista, Juniper/HPE, F5 and Ciena for networking and communications infrastructure; Microsoft, Apple, Google, Adobe, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Oracle, Workday, Intuit and Broadcom/VMware for operating systems, productivity, mobile platforms, databases, CRM, ERP, virtualization and enterprise applications; Palo Alto Networks, CrowdStrike, Fortinet, Zscaler, Okta, Cloudflare, Cisco and Microsoft for cybersecurity, identity and internet protection; OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Microsoft and NVIDIA for frontier AI models, development platforms and AI infrastructure; GitHub/Microsoft, IBM/Red Hat, Docker, Datadog, Snowflake, MongoDB, Confluent, Elastic and HashiCorp/IBM for software development, containers, databases, data management and infrastructure automation; Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe, Apple and Google for major payment and digital-wallet infrastructure; Apple, Google and Qualcomm for smartphones and mobile ecosystems; Akamai and Cloudflare for content delivery and internet infrastructure; and, critically, Cadence and Synopsys for semiconductor-design software plus Applied Materials, Lam Research and KLA for the equipment needed to manufacture advanced chips. Even that doesn’t completely solve the problem, because Canadian, European, Japanese, Taiwanese and Korean products frequently incorporate American chips, software, patents, design tools or manufacturing equipment somewhere in their supply chains.

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  Nikolas Spiridakis (@nikolasspyr) reported 56 minutes ago

  @linuxuser1996 Paypal app is just terrible, nothing to do with Graphene OS