I heard recently about Vaders shutting down. It's got me worried about how safe it is to use streaming services that accept Paypal or credit cards. If we use Paypal to pay for services, can that be traced back to us? I was reading some of the "compliance statements" at www.satscams.com . Many users mention they were tracked by paying with a credit card, even if they had paid several years before. The Vader (and other) resellers likely store payment information even after a user has canceled. I found one that uses the WHM payment system hosted on an American web host. The host would be likely to turn over all client information, and that would include names and Paypal emails. It seems like if I made even a one month payment to them, I could be in legal trouble years later if the reseller was trying to cut a deal themselves. Assuming anything about this is true (I'm assuming it's not a scam by Vader), Vader has said they will wipe all information. But some resellers are still operating for other services and could get caught themselves. So are Paypal payments safer than making credit card payments, or is crypto the only way to ensure (or be more sure of) anonymity?
End users are fairly safe as its not a case with torrents where u are actually helping distribute content.
With iptv, authorities seem to want to go after the content distributors and suppliers.