What is the purpose of this?
It's not exactly difficult to transfer money using your banks website or "paym" to mobile?
This seems to be a solution in search of an actual problem
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It happens with cookies as well. It's especially bad on the developer sandbox. If you ever have trouble using the sandbox it's either because your cookie is too big or it's broken for the 11th time this week.
Paypal sandbox was always really problematic when I used to have to use it. Full of odd cases where you'd suddenly find yourself outside of the sandbox, or undocumented issues such as needing to run your IPN listener on port 80.
IPN brings back some painful memories - IPNs from settlements, IPN timings...
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#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Normally I'd cry foul but 20 alphanumeric characters (roughly 64^20, or 1e36 combinations) is more than sufficient.
The issue is not the 20 characters, but the underlying reason for it. There's no technical reason they would need it unless they were storing it insecurely. Granted it's possible they're limiting it to 20 for a nontechnical reason, but I have some 40-character passwords in a password manager. Long passwords are not only reasonable, but this is a giant alarm bell if they even imply they might be storing them insecurel…
You can DOS a site that doesn't have password length enforcement. 20 characters really is too low though, because it rules out a lot of pass phrases. I believe Django allows up to 4mb for the password, which is more than enough for any sane password.
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#74It´s available here in Germany and I feared that fees would apply for every transaction but learning from the FAQ, when transferring money between friends/family this is actually free. Given, that in Germany, transactions between banks are free too, the whole cycle of shifting money should be also free for Paypal (omitting costs for running the service of course). I am looking forward to trying it out, it might be mu…
An alternative in Germany (or any country adhering to the IBAN/BIC numbering system) is cringle [1]. It uses direct withdrawals (Lastschrift) or wire transfers and does not require the other party to have a cringle account in order to receive money, according to their website. [1]: https://www.cringle.net
Cringle transactions are only free since very recently. Prior to that they wanted something between 10 to 20 cent per transaction. Even worse they seem to need six days for your transaction. (It's three days per transaction and they transfer it to their own account in-between)
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#75What is the purpose of this? It's not exactly difficult to transfer money using your banks website or "paym" to mobile? This seems to be a solution in search of an actual problem
I am guessing you are outside the U.S. because here it's actually a still a real nuisance to transfer money between banks.
There are plenty of attempts to solve this problem though. Square Cash, Venmo, etc.
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#76Deja vu? For those of us who have been around a while, we might remember this as being PayPal's original purpose in life. I remember paying back friends for lunch using PayPal and feeling like we were living in the future. Only later did PayPal move into the merchant space more seriously. Maybe my memory is poor and they launched with merchants at the same time but it took a few years for me to ever purchase anything…
I remember when PayPal was x.com. You'd tell people you could send them money via text message and they'd say, "What's a text message?"
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
The issue is not the 20 characters, but the underlying reason for it. There's no technical reason they would need it unless they were storing it insecurely. Granted it's possible they're limiting it to 20 for a nontechnical reason, but I have some 40-character passwords in a password manager. Long passwords are not only reasonable, but this is a giant alarm bell if they even imply they might be storing them insecurel…
What are you talking about? Taken to its logical conclusion you would have sites support passwords up to a million characters or else it is a sign that they are insecure. Having some limit is perfectly sane. I also find it a bit "armchair quarterbacky" to be calling out PayPal on security practices. They've been around the block a few times, and though I certainly don't love them, they aren't making rookie mistakes l…
"armchair quarterbacky" would make quite a good password, but unfortunately it's 1 character over their limit.
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> If I browse too many pages, the query string gets so long my requests fail Jesus. Is that really true?
It happens with cookies as well. It's especially bad on the developer sandbox. If you ever have trouble using the sandbox it's either because your cookie is too big or it's broken for the 11th time this week.
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That's stupid, how can this kind of thing not be "available" in a country? It's totally isolated from the service
It's a financial service, they're covering their ass from unforeseen tax issues. If some people in Russia decide to use it, and paypal hasn't checked to be sure that this is all completely legit under Russian tax law, there will be huge problems for them.
But the argument is that if you can get a PayPal account in Russia, and if you can send money to that account given the existing PayPal user interface, how is this feature different?