Yes , I did it when I was 18 legal age to acquire a bank account in germany . As soon as you have a bank account in your name and an ID , you can open a paypal account . <| sep |> Dude , once someone posted a story how a girl with Fatal Familial Insomnia went to school , despite not having slept for about a month . I called out it was impossible and got downvoted to hell . I know what I ' m talking about , people here don ' t give a fuck 99 % of them . Your quirky response means nothing . <| sep |> Relying on a proxy to prevent DNS leaks is a bad idea . d o c u m e n t s networkstacksocksproxyThe proxyserver flag applies to URL loads only . There are other components of Chrome which may issue DNS resolves directly and hence bypass this proxy server . The most notable such component is the DNS prefetcher . Hence if DNS prefetching is not disabled in Chrome then you will still see local DNS requests being issued by Chrome despite having specified a SOCKS v 5 proxy server .