# Disabled Link payment option keeps reappearing

Market: WooCommerce

WooCommerce store owners using Stripe want the Link payment option to stay disabled, but updates keep re-enabling it on product and checkout pages, confusing customers.

Source: https://idea.2folk.com/clusters/25

## Size

- Posts: 2
- Unique authors: 2
- Average severity: 3.0 of 5
- First seen: 2026-05-27. Last seen: 2026-09-02
- Trend: 0 posts in the last 28 days, 1 in the 28 days before
- Authors who say they plan to switch: 0

## Who has the problem

- merchant \(2\)

Store size hints:
- none found

## What they do today

- none found

## Tools named

Tools they complain about:
- none found

Alternatives they name:
- none found

## Price hints

- none found

## Evidence (top 2 by severity)

- [Updates keep re-enabling or forcing the Link payment option despite being disabled, confusing customers, and add a hidden element called AiAgentPaymentSteering.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/updates-force-features-to-turn-on-magically/) — 2026-09-02, wordpress, severity 3
- [Link payment button keeps reappearing on product and checkout pages even when disabled in Stripe and WooCommerce; previously fixed bug keeps resurfacing.](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/awful-plugin-just-awful/) — 2026-05-27, wordpress, severity 3

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