PayPal owns brands like Venmo, Honey and is heavily integrated into eBay - if you're looking to stop giving your money to bad companies, take a second to search their subsidiary brands as well.

"Heavily integrated into eBay" except it isnt any more.
Firstly the article is a year and a half old but although you can still use PayPal on eBay to say it is heavily integrated is bullshit. EBay started moving away from PayPal years ago and at this point have integrated their own systems linking to your bank account to take the place of what they used to use PayPal for.

Maybe one of these options are good?
https://alternativeto.net/software/paypal/
https://alternativeto.net/software/venmo/
While we're at it:
https://alternativeto.net/software/amazon/
- Looking through Amazon alternatives... they all suck so far. Though this Etsy alternative looks interesting:
  https://artisans.coop/

Any alternatives to PayPal?
- Depends on which function you want to replace?

With iOS app of paypal, you are forcefully giving honey as well, luckily, you can disable the safari plugin

I just have opted out overall and literally use as little as I can across the board.

You literally cannot escape these companies, they own everything. Every brand of every everything, and you've got a large corporation in there somewhere in the shadows. That's why they tell you to separate the art from the artist, because it's been made impossible to boycott anything.
- I can easily avoid every company owned by PayPal.
  
  I wish I could say the same, I use PayPal very frequently because my credit union doesn’t support debit-visa. With PayPal I can make payments with my bank online rather than use my cc.
- I work in a servo/convenience store and about 3/4 of our drink fridges (all 10 or so doors worth) are the same 4 brands. Probably most of the store is covered under like 7 brands.
  Coke, Pepsi, Schweppes, Nestle, Unilever and there goes almost everything edible and drinkable that isn't fresh.
  
  Now here's the scrubber of this all -- If you REALLY want to be serious -- Go to a farmers market.
  Oh wait, almost every fucking farmer is a Trump supporter...
- Disagree, haven't touched PayPal or anything related to PayPal in years without issue.
  When PayPal bought Venmo I stopped using them too. And long before that stopped using Ebay back when PayPal/Ebay were tied together.
- Really? Maybe true for things like Nestlé but I don't use any of these services directly and it hasn't been difficult.
  
  Nestlé is easy. I didn't know the last time I bought something from them.
- I just finished removing all my payment methods from paypal and have to wait for a transaction to complete before I can delete the account entirely. Took less than 15 minutes.
- Who are "they" and who says that that is valid advice?
  "Separate the artist..." is fairly accepted by any decent people I know as a way for selfish people to forgive themselves the burden of minor personal sacrifices related to their own consumer activities. The long form is literally, "Yes, Michael Jackson did horrible things to that little boy's butthole, Woody Allen molested his daughter and married his adopted child and Bill Cosby drugged and raped women for decades, but let's go buy their movie/album!" - you likely wouldn't say the long form through, would you? You would hide and obfuscate behind, "sepatate the artist..." So you don't have to say the bad things out loud.
  Nobody with any integrity buys into "separate the artist..."
  Also, to your point about this post, again it's a similarly lazy way to forgive yourself the burden of trying to stay aware of these things and making little changes to how you vote with your wallet. You can absolutely do something like go shop at Costco this week instead of target - as one performatively eliminated diversity programs at their company while one preserved them as a stand. That's where your opinion falls apart because yes, you can likely find something to hate Costco as well (because they are all garbage companies, but there are shades, they aren't all equal. You have to participate to function, but you can do the slightest amount of work to shop more consciously. But that is the work you are trying to forgive yourself of.
  The point isn't perfection, but to do enough for this week and try again next week. Before you know it, you're shopping more consciously wherever you go.
  
  Separate the Art from the Artist is accepted by SANE people, who don't have time to milk tirades so that they can play victim on the internet so that strangers think they are virtuous.
  There is not a thing you do, have, own, buy, or operate that isn't part of slavery, human exploitation, etc in some way or another. You only do this because you want to virtue signal to others that you think "good thoughts" and so you can be praised for being brave.
  You're not brave. You don't make a difference. And nobody cares.
  If you eat any kind of meat, your an evil "carnist". If you don't adopt pets from the shelter, then you're contributing to pet farming. If you don't drink from a paper straw then you're killing turtles.
  Everyone everywhere has some problem with someone's something. You literally cannot avoid it all. Own a smartphone? Then you're evil and deserve to die because you're carrying an item that was made by slavery! Let me guess...you're not gonna give up the smartphone...are you? Yeah - I didn't think you would.

This site provides absolutely no evidence of any of its claims and even includes the following little gem in the FAQ section on that page:
Is PayPal Safe?
Yes, all Paypal transactions are encrypted. Plus, it has two-factor authentication and fraud protection.
Safe for its customers, or safe for PayPal?
- The site was a quick roundup of info to link to. Post isn't an endorsement of the site and doesn't try to be, it's an endorsement of the broader idea. I didn't say to eat a bowl of horseshit and smile about it, I said PayPal owns Venmo and the implication is that a lot of decent people will stop using Paypal in protest and say, "I'll just use Venmo instead".
  So helping some of the younger folks realize that separation doesn't exist in many large brands - a thing that a lot of us do know and consider, but don't be so arrogant as to assume people aren't learning these things every day.

You want to hurt the money changer?
Use cash as much as possible... that shit really hurts these parasites.
Buy us bonds directly from the Treasury! They hate it!
- Another tactic is ..... don't spend money on things if you don't really need to. Why keep spending just to continually spend, spend, spend.
- Wrong time to put money into government...
  
  my man... USD is daddy's money...he lets you use them, if you you don't piss him off.
  if you are worried about USD, them being in some shiti savings account aint gonna be any less risky then having it in US treasuries.

what did PayPal do?
- It's an early specimen of "unregulated bank", founded in part by Trump buddy Peter Thiel and merged with Elon Musk's X.com in 2000.
  They have a history of locking accounts under false pretenses and seizing the money. It's screwed over many a Kickstarter and Indiegogo. Early in Minecraft history, Notch lost access to over half a million dollars. They've failed to pay rewards in their software bug bounty program.
  Edit: The usual antics for Musk and friends for 20 years.
  Also, I checked my records. I'm biased (a word that the current US administration is erasing from all government documents) because of an early Amazon third-party seller plus PayPal experience; the item I was sent was wrong and 5% of the value of what I ordered. Returned sealed cheap item, seller wouldn't refund. PayPal ruled in the seller's favor and Amazon did not care because of third-party seller terms and conditions. A young person out a few hundred bucks doesn't forget that.
  Braintree, Honey, Paydiant, Tradera, Xoom, and Zettle all owned by PayPal.
  
  Not the modern X.com to be clear; Musk just has a weird fetish for the letter X like an edgy teenager.
  
  right. I just thought they'd made the news today or something.
- Oh boy... Look up peter thiel, elon musk and david sacks to start - three stains on humanity working very actively to end it as we speak. They were the basin founding faces of PayPal (I mean, I think musk came on after the fact or was pushed out early or something, continuing the trend of him never actually creating anything). Currently they are alll very active in the trump admin - two with officially appointed positions, one in the shadows. Vance is also created by thiel. Look up that "Dark Gothic maga" video (musk's stupid name) that's been shared often recently.
  Then separately, PayPal owns Honey, and it turns out has been scamming millions, maybe billions away from online creators for years, probably some of your favorites included in that list. Active lawsuit ongoing - look up legal eagle's video maybe as a start.
  All these billionaire fucks made their fortunes through Paypal and still likely hold stock and maybe board positions, can't recall?
  
  Hear, hear. It fucking sucks that we created these monsters. At least I did, for simply wanting to use eBay.

Zelle is separate right?
- From wikipedia
  Zelle (/zɛl/) is a United States–based digital payments network run by a private financial services company owned by the banks Bank of America, Truist, Capital One, JPMorgan Chase, PNC Bank, U.S. Bank, and Wells Fargo.
  So PayPal does not seem to own an interest in Zelle, but the group of owners isn't necessarily better than PayPal.
  
  It's capital all the way down, man.
- A group of different bad people behind Zelle. But maybe enough to stop supporting those few South African ghouls working to role America and then the would beyond. You'll need to decide where your line is, but deleting PayPal account and uninstalling their apps is a start. Maybe you go to Zelle and use that while you research if there is something decent somewhere.
  Maybe it means going back to small credit unions? paper checks? Direct bank transfers with friends/family? Not sure what best alternatives is currently. Banking in general is just not really ever going to contain good people - maybe if we allow personal banking at the post office one day - but that's a pipe dream as fascists are denying judges rulings and releasing January 6 criminals who tased a cop in the neck and admitted to it under oath.

See, this isn't viable.
This is the "ban plastic straws" of late stage capitalism. Overrepresenting individual action to distract from the need of structural reform.
Stop voting with your wallet, it's pointless. Consumption is not expressing support. Vote with your votes, if you're in a place where you have a chance to do so, find other ways to organize collective action if you don't.
- Naw sorry, I tried that this last election and got embarrassed. Went hardcore Democrat, Coconut-pilled, blah blah blah.
  I genuinely tried to believe in it, voted early, got friends and family to show up and vote too. Not only did the dems lose, they lost worse than they have in decades.
  And to make matters worse, the Democratic party largely has completely missed why they lost so badly to the most pathetic excuse for a president in American history.
  It's too late for large scale positive structural change with the current political parties in the USA. The Dems must be torn apart and re-shaped into a populist left-wing party to have any chance of meaningful change. Until that happens, voting with your dollar is the only kind of vote that will be taken seriously.
  Extremely local elections, sure, vote for a leftist candidate that might actually win some small office. But unless it's that, vote with your dollar and engage in direct action to serve your community and build genuine solidarity.
- The two are not mutually exclusive...
  People can take direct action
  People can organized and act as a group in solidarity.
  Stop voting with your wallet, it's pointless.
  Yes... consume like a brain dead idiot, esp follow shiti marketing campaigns online, deff make sure you buy that trash 🤡
  And remember... "voting" is how we got here in the first place.
  Americans don't understand what going into proper opposition means. hint, it aint voting for the "other" guy
- If you're in a country with a two party system then voting has even less impact that than giving your money to a more worthwhile company.
  Consumption is not expressing support.
  You may not support them with your words but giving them money is literally support. Like giving a horse an apple and then saying you're not feeding it.
  
  No, it's like giving the horse a sugar cube where you own exactly one of the grains of sugar, taking your grain of sugar away and pretending you've made a difference.
  Or, you know, banning plastic straws.
  You're absolutely wrong about two party systems in any case, even those have tons of elected roles in different layers of governance where changes matter. And that's also where the collective action comes in. Your feel-good token choices of companies and services to avoid haven't done anything in the past thirty years and aren't going to start now.