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by esperent 1261 days ago
No because unfortunately Patreon, like every other service, is forced to use Mastercard and Visa who have decided they are the arbiters of morality in our society.
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I believe it’s less morality and more these adult markets have a much greater level of risk involved. Loads more disputes, etc.
The issue has never been that the adult industry balked at dispute fees. PSD2 enforced two-factor payment checks also make disputes much less of an issue. This is entirely about Visa/Mastercard simply refusing to work with some industries.
That's a lame excuse tbh. If they had no objection they'd allow it for every merchant and then only after said merchant has a lot of "disputes,etc" would they then block said merchant from selling such services. They even have a genuinely good reason then!!

It's like saying "yeah we don't service the entire Chinese and Russian IP block because of risk and lots of hacking coming form there."