> I don't think it is possible to hide your paypal email address when doing payments.
OK, thank you.
Regarding the Adaptive Payment suggestion, it seems that it's still under control of the merchant, and if the merchant site was nefarious they could fake an Adaptive Payment for me to log into.
You're correct in saying that I should never enter my PayPal password into the merchant's site. I also don't want the merchant to re-direct me. I don't want the merchant to open an Adaptive Payment window for me. I want to open a completely separate browser window and login to PayPal myself, and then pay the merchant by looking up the merchant's ID or using an invoice number provided by the merchant. Is there no way to do that?
If you want this because you are concerned about the security, the current way it works is pretty secure.
Even if the merchant redirects you, it opens a new browser window/tab of Paypal's own web page. You can check the identity with https indicator in you browser bar. You enter your password there, logging in to Paypal yourself. Merchant redirecting you doesn't affect the security in any way.
OK, thank you.
Regarding the Adaptive Payment suggestion, it seems that it's still under control of the merchant, and if the merchant site was nefarious they could fake an Adaptive Payment for me to log into.
You're correct in saying that I should never enter my PayPal password into the merchant's site. I also don't want the merchant to re-direct me. I don't want the merchant to open an Adaptive Payment window for me. I want to open a completely separate browser window and login to PayPal myself, and then pay the merchant by looking up the merchant's ID or using an invoice number provided by the merchant. Is there no way to do that?