I’ll decide what is misinformation or propaganda for myself. If someone else is limiting what information you can and cannot have or determining what is objectively true for you before you even have exposure to other ideas, everything you “know” is unreliable at best.
This is probably the best answer even if you were hoping to solve it via PayPal. Something like Monero, cash in person (or by mail if needed) or money order or something like that are all going to be better than PayPal. Gift cards could also work depending on what and why you are sending funds. Some of those have no ID requirements under certain values and are often just digital codes rather than physical cards. PayPal is far from great in a number of ways, not the least of which is privacy or pseudonimity.
Most locales have money transmitter laws, so if you are using a third party service rather than something like handing cash over in person, you are typically expected to include identifying information and I’m sure any “workarounds” would be in violation of PayPal’s terms of service.
And in most places I think you are also supposed to do this even for cash over varying threshold amounts, though likely not for the one-off $100 or less amounts you are interested in. This isn’t legal advice and all those disclaimers, blah blah blah.
In addition to the Microsoft trackers, I referenced this as well in another reply in this topic:
https://reclaimthenet.org/duckduckgo-down-ranking-russian-disinformation
There are plenty of other sources that also reported on this.
The Microsoft trackers issue is bad and they eventually had to address it due to the backlash, but that’s not the only issue.
They also began explicitly censoring search results and information. Regardless of any given persons stance on any particular issue, things like censoring or downranking particular results or labeling content mis, dis or mal information means an entity like DDG is acting as an arbiter of truth and limiting the information users have access to rather than acting as a tool for users to utilize in searching for info and presenting any and all viewpoints, allowing the user to make up their own mind.
https://reclaimthenet.org/duckduckgo-down-ranking-russian-disinformation
It’s about time. I had been using alternate engines specifically for image search for this reason. Although I was grateful that Brave search made it very clear to the user that image searches were being returned from Google or Bing. If Brave hadn’t chosen to make that explicit with a popup, I may have assumed otherwise.
And it’s getting some coverage now:
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2019048/braves-search-engine-is-now-totally-independent.html
I agree, we need more peaceful noncompliance. Simply getting a small but significant percentage of the population to opt out of or ignore unjust systems and unjust laws would be a great starting point to standing in the way of bad policy and infringements on liberty.
Your point is a strong one, that having the tools available is a great first step, and now greater adoption and use by the general public is required.
Keep encouraging friends family and acquaintances to take the first steps on a larger journey away from those compromised corporate products and hopefully the needle will continue to move more significantly.
Per app network permission to enable or disable access by using a toggle would be such a great addition.