PayPal Not Sure of Itself
December 6th, 2007 at 2:54 pm by Peter WaldschmidtI was minding my own business, checking on my PayPal account when I happened across the following screen. (Click on the image to see it full size.)
Notice that I’ve browsed to the PayPal site, and the PayPal browser add-in is warning me that I may be on a phishing site. Being a developer myself, I know how easy it is to make these kinds of mistakes. I’m sure there are a dozen good technical reasons why this is happening. Still, it’s mighty embarrassing for PayPal.
Speaking of the PayPal add-in… It has worn out its welcome. I guess it’s supposed to pop up on sites that accept credit cards and help you use their new secure card feature to pay. Yikes. It needs a lot of work. The pop-up constantly pops up while I’m visiting sites where I’m not paying for anything and when it pops up, it steals the focus from my typing. To make matters worse, the preference setting to make it go away does not work. I’ve set it several times, and yet it keeps popping up anyway. Get it together, PayPal!
