Paypal, Ko-Fi, and all these other websites are tracking you through the links you click and the cookies you pick up along the way.
They then gather that information, analyze it and then use that to ...
they are networking everything you do through the websites you visit and build a pattern of activity but it only matters if you do business on those sites. So as an example,
if I were posting my paypal.me link here and I started getting commission money through it, that would kill my account.
if I were posting my paypal.me link here and I started getting commission money through it, that would kill my account.
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