April 20, 2008
PayPal welcomes Safari back into the fold
Posted Apr. 20, ’08, 10:00 AM PT by Aayush Arya
Category | Internet
A few days ago, on Friday, we brought you word of PayPal’s decision to ban those web browsers from visiting the site which do not have any anti-phishing measures built-in. The idea behind it is that if people are unable to use PayPal using their subpar browsers, they’ll switch to one that is more secure (like, perhaps, Internet Explorer 7).
Given that PayPal has already singled out Safari for its lack of such a feature in the past and they made no specific comments regarding Safari this time round, we (along with the rest of the media) naturally assumed that this move would block the majority of Mac users from accessing the website.
However, Ben Worthen of The Wall Street Journal brings us word today that our favorite little web browser has been spared the wrath of PayPal and isn’t among the list of soon-to-be-banned web browsers. I guess someone high up in the PayPal administration got a friendly call from the Apple CEO.
Apparently, they’ll only be blocking “old browsers and old operating systems”, so unless you’re using Windows 95 with Internet Explorer 4.0, we think that you have nothing to worry about. If you are indeed using those, then, my dear friend, you have bigger problems than just not being able to access PayPal.
[Via MacDailyNews]
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Dude,
I know you're a Mac kinda guy, but Windows 97. No such animal. Windows 98. Not that it make a great deal of difference, but Mac guys know these things.
is there a windows 97?
Windows 97?
What that a real OS? I remember 95 and 98, but not a 97?
(Aside from Office 97)
I don't know what happened there but I'm pretty sure I'd intended to type Windows 95. It has been rectified now.
Thanks for pointing it out! :)
Boy, the Mac crowd sure knows an awful lot about the different iterations of Windows. :p