PayPal and shared computers...beware of being 'banned'

[Posbear]

Do you share your computer with someone else?, then you better be careful if you both use PayPal on it.

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[billsstamps]

Do you share your computer with someone else?, then you better be careful if you both use PayPal on it.

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Sky have written this up to give the scare factor, poor journalism in my view.

Reading more carefully:

On Thursday afternoon, the company (Paypal) said in a statement: "We are not against people sharing their devices.

[johnwash1]

Sky have written this up to give the scare factor, poor journalism in my view.

Reading more carefully:

I agree. "Paypal giving sensible advice in their T's & C's" just isn't headline grabbing enough for Yahoo.

If you have a tablet and leave it on the coffee table, with Paypal usable without having to reinput your password, naturally Paypal don't want to pick up the tab for utter stupidity.

I never did understand why Yahoo thought it was a good name for a company. To quote Wikipedia: "A Yahoo is a legendary being in the novel Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift. Swift describes them as being filthy and with unpleasant habits, ..."