IIRC Stripe is the main payment processor. If you’re paying with a visa or mastercard online, it’s usually via stripe. Hence, the immediate censorship.

Paypal can go fuck itself and die

Unfortunately irrelevant. Sometimes information is dense, it happens. Clickbait is wasting people’s time at best, and intentionally misleading at worst. This headline (for a free article) is neither

Genuinely trying to figure out your issue(s). Sorry about whatever you have going on in there

Are you threatened by the idea of reading? Would you rather titles not exist? Is it the reading or is it the clicking that offends you the most?

Clickbait usually refers to deceitful or misleading headlines. Were you mislead by this headline? How?