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Sometimes pop-ups are harmful, while other times they are necessary.
On Safari, you can enable pop-ups for all websites.
There is a better route that requires creating exceptions.
You're on your MacOS device, shopping for a holiday gift for your loved one. You find the perfect item and decide it has to be purchased. You go through the shopping cart process and decide to pay with PayPal. You click the pay button, and nothing happens.
Nothing. You click the pay button again, and nothing happens. Again and again and again... with no results. What gives?
Also: I found an iPhone and Mac browser that's faster, safer, and easier than Safari
Most likely, you have pop-ups blocked for Safari. Given that the PayPal login prompt from third-party sites comes in the form of a pop-up, you're not going to be able to use the service.
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