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PayPal browser plugin: Buy stuff on sites that don't take PayPal
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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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Monkey said 8:10PM on 6-04-2008
This is also only currently available to US PayPal customers.
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lemcog said 10:56PM on 6-04-2008
This has been available for months.
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maelow said 10:58PM on 6-04-2008
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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Bill said 10:58PM on 6-04-2008
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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Lyndon said 7:25AM on 6-05-2008
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.
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Michael said 7:26AM on 6-05-2008
I call it the Hack-O-Matic.
It's just aching to be spoofed and will be.
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Mark Dean said 7:26AM on 6-05-2008
Great...
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James said 10:33AM on 6-05-2008
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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mike jones said 5:44PM on 6-05-2008
This is older than the internet...
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Scott said 11:00AM on 6-06-2008
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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Techie ZOne said 11:56AM on 7-17-2008
Pay6pal customer service sucks and so also Paypal.
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cavalera said 7:42AM on 7-21-2008
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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cavalera said 1:51AM on 7-21-2008
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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