Re:Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript ...
by icebraining on Monday October 16, 2017 @10:11AM
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Popups in direct response to clicks still mostly work, as far as I know.
Re:Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript ...
by adventured on Monday October 16, 2017 @10:33AM
(#15483433)
> The popups will be blocked by all major browsers most of the time
That's incorrect. They default to blocking site instigated pop-ups, not user instigated pop-ups. Some versions of the Facebook & Twitter login systems for example rely on user instigated pop-ups.
PayPal wouldn't use this approach if you were right. They'd have a 0% use result. They have billions of dollars in transaction volume at stake, they're not going with an approach that guarantees a 0% outcome.
Re:Introducing PayPal’s open-source cross-domain JavaScript ...
by user5994461 on Monday October 16, 2017 @01:47PM
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>>> PayPal wouldn't use this approach if you were right. They'd have a 0% use result. They have billions of dollars in transaction volume at stake, they're not going with an approach that guarantees a 0% outcome.
Doesn't mean anything. They could have not thought of it at all, or tested it on some platforms were it worked while some others don't.
Billions dollars companies are not immune to bugs and typo. I have seen some by my own eyes.
The popups will be blocked by all major browsers most of the time because of the aggressive popup blocking. Remember the 2000's when pop up were abused by all sort of evil ads and notifications. They've been blocked ever since.