Editing Forced retention of payment methods (section)

===Cdiscount & PayPal (Retail / payment platform)===
On May 28, 2025, a single €7.90 purchase on Cdiscount via PayPal resulted in the creation of a pre-approved billing agreement. The user had not subscribed to any recurring payment, did not agree to such a mandate, and was not presented with any contract or checkbox.
Attempts to cancel the agreement on PayPal showed it as ‘pending cancellation’ indefinitely. The section to manage billing authorizations was not immediately visible on the site. It appeared only several seconds after page load, suggesting it was injected via asynchronous JavaScript… likely reducing the user’s ability to act on it.

The user describes this as a '''technical obfuscation''' that makes the control over payment settings artificially harder. The only contact attempt with Cdiscount was made via a '''support form that left no trace, no confirmation number, and no email'''.


[[File:Paypal cancellation pending.png|thumb|950x950px|Paypal cancellation pending]]