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I'm a sucker for PayPal.

Most of the time it's 2-3 clicks when I want to buy something off of a random website, worst case is I have to login again.

Compare that to reaching out for your credit card and putting in your info. Plus you'd have to trust them now with your CC data.

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Exactly this. I just don't want to get up, find my wallet, enter the card number, choose the expiration date from a select, enter the CVV, hit submit, and after all this there is a chance it's not going to work, who knows why, I don't even care. I don't like paypal, but it's really convenient.

Is your browser so out of date or you dont like storing your cc info? As much as i remember few years ago chrome asked me already if i want to save the cc card i entered into the form for future use.

It still won't store the cvc, and plenty of sites do weird idiosyncratic labels on their forms that break the autocomplete.

I use my credit card online so often that I have the card number, expiration date, and CVC memorized.

With Chrome autocomplete it's even faster to put in my own CC.

Same here, plus a consistent and searchable email record.

>Plus you'd have to trust them now with your CC data.

This is a failure of the CC provider, not that the customer cares. If you use something like 3D secure, you don't have to worry about the merchant misusing your data.

Don't underestimate laziness; I've given up on buying stuff just to avoid getting up from the couch or bed to get my phone :D

It also made purchases with the company CC annoying - couldn't buy anything when the boss was in a meeting.

Last time I read about it, using 3D Secure changed your liability agreement with the credit card provider. Not to mention that its implementation is a confusing mess that bounces you between badly designed websites with questionable security.

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