You can install the PayPal plugin by logging into your PayPal account and select PayPal Plug-in from the menu on the left. You'll be prompted to download a 5MB file which will install the plugin for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Note that the plugin is Windows only, and does not seem to play well with Firefox 3 yet.
Once installed, a window should pop up whenever you visit a site asking for your credit card information. You can also generate a card manually through a drop down menu.
If you're using Mac, Linux, or Firefox 3, you can still use the secure card feature by logging into your PayPal account and generating a card number. But the browser plugin makes the process much easier.
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6-04-2008 @ 8:10PM
Monkey said...
This is also only currently available to US PayPal customers.
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6-04-2008 @ 10:56PM
lemcog said...
This has been available for months.
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6-04-2008 @ 10:58PM
maelow said...
So yet another way to put the bottom feeder scum at Paypal between the consumer and making a simple purchase.Wow that's just great.
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6-04-2008 @ 10:58PM
Bill said...
I've been using the Paypal plug-in for, I believe, at least six months. If I recall, I was offered the opportunity to test it. I use it quite a bit and find it easy to use and accurate.
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6-05-2008 @ 7:25AM
Lyndon said...
I remember trying the service when it first came out and I could never get the thing to work.
Emailed customer service and got a generic response and I never bothered with it again.
http://lyndonology.blogspot.com/
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6-05-2008 @ 7:26AM
Michael said...
I call it the Hack-O-Matic.
It's just aching to be spoofed and will be.
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6-05-2008 @ 7:26AM
Mark Dean said...
Great...
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6-05-2008 @ 10:33AM
James said...
I can't help thinking this is fixing a problem in the wrong way ... What *I* would find most useful is the opposite: a plugin to let me use my credit card on sites that take only PayPal, whose history yields a wealth of reasons to stay away from them.
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6-05-2008 @ 5:44PM
mike jones said...
This is older than the internet...
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6-06-2008 @ 11:00AM
Scott said...
This is pretty cool. Thing I hate about Paypal is the redirection through Double Click. So I created a Greasemonkey script to get around that.
http://www.techlifeweb.com/2007/11/26/fixing-doubleclick-redirection-with-greasemonkey/
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7-17-2008 @ 11:56AM
Techie ZOne said...
Pay6pal customer service sucks and so also Paypal.
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7-21-2008 @ 1:51AM
cavalera said...
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7-21-2008 @ 7:42AM
cavalera said...
We are an Exchange Service Provider (Market Maker) around the growing market of electronic currencies.
Our services are Simple, Fast & Efficient.
Our aim is to give people easy access to the gold economy and allow our customers to benefit from the new ecommerce revolution that is the future of money.
www.sellerandbuyerforum.com
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