PayPal Denies It Will Block Safari

Despite reports that PayPal may drop support for Apple's Safari browser because it lacks anti-phishing features, PayPal now says it ain't so. Though PayPal telegraphed displeasure with Safari last January, they're now unambiguous about their position: "We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple's Safari, from our website."

Comments

Re:Backpedaling faster tha you can say...

[cheater512]

They never said that they'd block it in the first place.
They said that they would block the insecure browsers.

Specifically browsers like IE 5.5 which is old and should never be used anymore.

Re:Wish Apple Would Fix it

[JustCallMeRich]

I wish apple would fix Safari (and Mail too) to better display the actual targets of links. View menu - Show Status Bar.

Now you have a little bar at the bottom of Safari that shows you the actual target of links.

Trying with Lynx:

[SanityInAnarchy]

lynx https://www.paypal.com/
SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue? (y) y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: cookie_check=yes Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: navcmd=_home-general Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: navlns=0.0 Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
# FINALLY there's a homepage. "Member Log In" is on the second page.
SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue? (y) y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
Refresh: 1 seconds
https://.../
SSL error:no issuer was found-Continue? (y) y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y
www.paypal.com cookie: (censored) Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer)y ...

Ok, if I'd hit "a" to those cookies, it would've been a lot better. And there are a fscking LOT of cookies.

Now, I haven't actually tried to do anything with it so far, but I suspect that it would, in fact, work just fine. It's curious that it doesn't like the SSL -- I suspect that's a problem with my version of Lynx, as Firefox and Konqueror don't give me any SSL warnings. But other than that, Paypal isn't doing anything to block Lynx, and it looks reasonably navigateable.

That isn't a difference based on browser

[patio11]

Its a difference based on whether you have a Paypal cookie on your system. If you do, they push the paypal option, since that means you move money from one Paypal account to another and Paypal gets an interchange fee but doesn't have to pay anything. If you don't, they give the credit card equal billing, since they know that maximizes the odds of them getting a transaction, even if they have to kick back most of their interchange fee to the credit card.

Since your IE and Firefox cookies are not shared, my guess is that you haven't logged in on IE recently. Try logging in for both browsers then logging out and attempting a purchase. You'll get identical behavior.

Disclaimer: IANAEOP (I am not an employee of Paypal) but half my business runs through them.