Screed and the anti-tech
May. 15th, 2009 09:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynI really dislike paypal. Just so you know.
There were all those rumors about paypal's morality clauses where paypal could not be used to buy things they thought were immoral.
My main problem with them stemmed from the way disputed transactions were handled and how the money stayed in limbo. If the transaction failed and the money was returned to the purchaser immediately, then other payment methods could be found. Or if there was a hold on the transaction but it went through quickly, then no second payment would need refunding.
This came up today because of my own fault. I habitually use Opera for my browsing. I leave it with cookies off, no referrer logging, and pretty much anything else turned off that I can... Opera allows an easy per-site adjustment to these parameters, so I said Dreamwidth could set any cookies and have whatever referrer information it wants. It can also use fancy scripting stuff to make these input forms work right. But I do not do business with paypal frequently. If I am ordering online, I usually browse in Opera, then paste the item URL into the box in Firefox (which is set to have sluttish parameters and is constantly getting tracking cookies that the antivirus/anti-spyware screams about). Obviously since Dreamwidth has its special settings, I don't think about viewing it in Firefox instead. Well, I should have realized I needed to turn slutty cookies on to pay for my Dreamwidth account. So when I clicked through in Opera, I got a paypal fail message. Now the problem is that there is no way to retrieve the link and go through with the correct cookies.
I did email the accounts people at Dreamwidth, but I suspect there will be failure and it will be my fault for the cookie settings, but I still blame paypal. If paypal weren't so icky maybe I'd have allowed them to have cookies.
So. It's my fault, but I still hate paypal. Just so you know.
update: I went to the post office and got a money order and dropped it in the mail. I have my fingers crossed that this will not just disappear into the ether.
There were all those rumors about paypal's morality clauses where paypal could not be used to buy things they thought were immoral.
My main problem with them stemmed from the way disputed transactions were handled and how the money stayed in limbo. If the transaction failed and the money was returned to the purchaser immediately, then other payment methods could be found. Or if there was a hold on the transaction but it went through quickly, then no second payment would need refunding.
This came up today because of my own fault. I habitually use Opera for my browsing. I leave it with cookies off, no referrer logging, and pretty much anything else turned off that I can... Opera allows an easy per-site adjustment to these parameters, so I said Dreamwidth could set any cookies and have whatever referrer information it wants. It can also use fancy scripting stuff to make these input forms work right. But I do not do business with paypal frequently. If I am ordering online, I usually browse in Opera, then paste the item URL into the box in Firefox (which is set to have sluttish parameters and is constantly getting tracking cookies that the antivirus/anti-spyware screams about). Obviously since Dreamwidth has its special settings, I don't think about viewing it in Firefox instead. Well, I should have realized I needed to turn slutty cookies on to pay for my Dreamwidth account. So when I clicked through in Opera, I got a paypal fail message. Now the problem is that there is no way to retrieve the link and go through with the correct cookies.
I did email the accounts people at Dreamwidth, but I suspect there will be failure and it will be my fault for the cookie settings, but I still blame paypal. If paypal weren't so icky maybe I'd have allowed them to have cookies.
So. It's my fault, but I still hate paypal. Just so you know.
update: I went to the post office and got a money order and dropped it in the mail. I have my fingers crossed that this will not just disappear into the ether.
