Does anyone know if you can still pay by Paypal without unblocking Google scripts?

I don't (don't have PP connected to GOG) but I know one thing:
This sort of shit (GOG having SO bad webdesign that there is an IF kind of check in unrelated places making forcible load of gpay a neccecity to LOAD A FREAKING *SAVED* PAYMENT CARD or other payment method) cannot be let to freely fly.
We really have to voice our concerns loud enough for GOG to change this obvious flaw and privacy (also security depending on how you look at it) violation.

Well in such situation interested party should do what other interested parties do: create their own. Because it's not that hard and most places just make excuses. Considering how many things GOG seemingly does by hand I guess they could just go and do that.

But I do see one obstruction that isn't particularly obvious and I forgot about it when originally mentioning crypto.
I wasn't paying direct attention to that matter so I am not 100% certain if that law passed or not but there were some talks in Poland within few years back about forcing crypto related law that looked just down right INSANE - basically taxing it HEAVILY (which Poland cannot exactly legally do since it's not a gov-bound financial system, let alone theirs) - not only that, taxing PAST TRANSACTIONS from before the law would be supposed to be set in stone (now that is just down right illegal and absurde in most countries) and on top of that with so absurde rates that people would have to often pay more taxes than worth of their transaction.
So I don't know. I wish GOG would support the crypto (as crypto is beneficial in many ways) but I don't know if it would ever happen.

It always strikes me as odd that Gog are (or were) anti-DRM but also seemingly anti-privacy and anti-Linux as well.

Strange understanding of privacy. No wonder you force your users to accept Google surveillance and tracking when redeeming gift codes.

Please elaborate. It's first time I'm hearing about this (but I wasn't redeeming gift codes for years so either something changed or I was not paying attention at all back then [possible, I know for a fact that I redeemed one code on browser with no noscript so there wasn't a whole lot I could see as far as debug output goes]).

And yes, the wording GOG uses here is highly in the muddy territory.

Entering either a gift code or discount code requies recaptcha. At least they haven't required it for login this year like they did on occasion for a few years, hopefully it won't come back for the big sale (unless it is just me that they stopped asking and still ask some users).

Thx for explanation.
I personally haven't seen recaptcha on login for a long time, either that or I overlooked some single digit occurences.
As for gift redeeming - I don't understand what would be a purpose of it - it really DOESN'T change anything bot-protection-wise, there ARE recaptcha solving bots around (also what's the point of protecting specificly gift redeem with it of all things). Perhaps I'm missing some sh*t but afaik it's still not possible to save payment methods outside of actual cart interface? It's 2020 GOG. It's about to be 2021 in slightly over a month. It's time to implement it. So "Dew it".

You must be the only entity on this planet that thinks that privacy and Google are actually a thing, and not mutually exclusive. To get a reply by an actual person in about a month's time?

What you (GOG) should do is explain, here in the open, why one must allow pay.google.com to run if they want to pay directly using a card. And the sooner the better.

If anyone else is curious, I've just bought some games using Paypal without having to unblock any Google scripts.

For a moment I hoped I could finally use the dead weight google funds I have; but all they want is my credit card. You won't get it! Never!

... well, maybe when I have one. But until then NEVER!

So I tried to use this and it's not working at all for me...

You have to allow Google JavaScript if you want to pay by card, most probably due to some badly done dependency chain in the JavaScript for the checkout page.

This is of course a big confidentiality breach.

As joveian already has answered you are forced to solve Google recaptchas when you want to use a discount or gift code, even when you are already logged in to your GOG account.

And it of course adds even less protection when you are already logged in. But that never has been the point of Google's recaptchas. It's just another "free" tool which allows fingerprinting and tracking of the users, without giving them a chance to avoid it (when they want to use the "protected" service).

I know, I'm very unimpressed with Gog's use of Google in general. I posted because I didn't think anyone had mentioned if it affected all payment methods or just cards.

I did not get around to reading this thread until now. This explains why neither me nor others of my friends and relatives can pay in this shop. I guess that means I have enough games here for now.