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The PayPal Phenomenon

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the buy-now-pay-later dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Pretty interesting and thorough history of PayPal." Not really the usual fare on Slashdot, but this is a very readable account of one of the few dot-com successes. I find PayPal pretty annoying today - a lot of the anti-fraud, privacy-invasive measures which this article applauds make Paypal much less enticing to me than it used to be. And they've been accused of squatting on people's funds at the slightest excuse. But maybe that's the way to success: start off with a very appealing product, then slowly tighten the screws.

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  1. hey by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i just ate jizz... is it my own? i don't know, it was lieing on the floor... licked it up... mmm ;-)

  2. Heh.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    michael's against anti-fraud measures, hmm. I'm guessing this is just one step in the long road to admitting he's a slimeball.

  3. DreamSynthesis! Is that you?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where have ya been, buddy? Why did you change your username? Is it because you got trolled to hell, and your karma got raped because of it?

    Ha ha, that was funny. You bastard anti-Semite.

  4. DreamSynthesis! Is that you?? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where have ya been, buddy? Why did you change your username? Is it because you got trolled to hell, and your karma got raped because of it?

    Ha ha, that was funny. You bastard anti-Semite.

  5. Slashdot Jews by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    So is Jon Katz...