Since a couple of days PayPal sends me verification codes via WhatsApp instead of SMS. I do not want this. I have found a few other topics about this but they do give the correct answers. My questions: 1) I never indicated my use of WhatsApp anywhere. How does PayPal detect or know that I have a WhatsApp account? Is this happening because I own a WhatsApp business account? This is a privacy breach. We need an official statement from PayPal about this. 2) how can the use of whatsapp for verification be disabled? I am often in places where there is no mobile data available, I need to use SMS! Also, Meta/Facebook cannot be trusted with this information.
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