I have been using PayPal for years and have never had any issues until today. At checkout I was being asked to add a credit or debit card, eventhough my account shows a card is already linked and verified. At checkout I noticed PayPal being run within another app named Epoch. *After some research* Epoch is an online service for easily recording and recalling transactions. Redundant since PayPal already records all the transactions. So eventhough PayPal protects a users infromation by acting as intermediary in all transactions, Epoch forces the user to enter their personal information again for its records. Ps; only other time I was ever asked for a card was when I was trying to buy something before another purchase had been processed. Back when I used direct deposit and had to wait a few business days.
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