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UPDATE - Problem liegt vermutlich bei eBay

(English summary below.)

Hab noch etwas mehr rumprobiert und dank https://twitter.com/AskPayPal bin ich auf etwas aufmerksam geworden:

 Wenn ich mich bei PayPal (über die ganz normale Seite https://www.paypal.de/) einlogge und dann in einem anderen Tab eBay aufmache, einen Artikel in den Warenkorb lege und dann PayPal als Zahlungsmethode werde ich bei PayPal ausgeloggt!

 eBay macht mir die Session (bzw. den Cookie) kaputt sobald dieser vermurkste Pop-up aufgeht! (Statt die Session die bereits da ist zu nutzen...)

 Kann auch super jederzeit reproduziert werden:
  1. Tab Nr. 1: PayPal öffnen und einloggen (man ist hier auf der Übersichtsseite).
  2. Tab Nr. 2: eBay öffnen, einen Artikel in den Warenkorb legen.
  3. Im Warenkorb auf "Weiter zur Kaufabwicklung" klicken
  4. PayPal als Zahlungsmethode auswählen. (Zu diesem Zeitpunkt ist man in Tab Nr. 1 bei PayPal noch eingeloggt!)
  5. Auf "Weiter" klicken - hierbei öffnet sich das Pop-up und gleichzeitig geht die Session in Tab Nr. 1 kaputt!
  6. Ohne dass man irgendwas in dem Pop-up klickt oder einträgt kann man jetzt auf den PayPal-Tab zurückwechseln und z.B. irgendeine Transaktion anklicken (oder die Seite neu laden). Die Transaktion wird nicht geöffnet, sondern man wird auf die Loginseite zurückgeworfen!
Also liegt die Vermutung, dass hier eBay Mist baut immer näher!

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 Okay, so a short summary of the above in English: thanks to AskPayPal Twitter did some more testing.

 One thing I did was open PayPal in a tab in my browser, log in and then open eBay on another tab. Then I tried to buy an item and pay with PayPal. I selected PP as payment method and clicked on "Continue". The pop-up opens. Then - without doing anything in the pop-up - I went back to the other tab where PP was open and tried to click on a previous transaction (or I could've tried to reload the page). Instead of getting the transaction information I was redirected to the login page of PP.

 So it seems, that eBay (or the PP pop-up) destroyed my session cookie.

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