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			<h1>My Discover card is now unlocked</h1>
			<p>Day 00070: Saturday, 2015 May 16</p>
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		Day 5:
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		I decided to pay another visit to the Discover website because Discover still has not gotten back to me about how to get my credit card unlocked.
		This time however, the website presented me immediately with the question of whether or not that last attempted transaction was legitimate.
		I was finally able to clear up the issue without a stupid telephone.
		My previous login sessions did not have this option and the discover support team would not help me with this.
		I don&apos;t know if they recently added this option or if it&apos;s an option that shows up if you don&apos;t call them within a specified period of time.
		In any case, it looks like I will not have to cancel my Discover card after all.
		A card that requires a telephone to manage is a card that is useless to me.
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		The mobile version of PayPal&apos;s website seems to demand an account every time, while the desktop version of me to demand an account some of the time.
		Likewise, the mobile PayPal site does not offer a way to switch to the desktop version.
		I had to tweak my user agent string to reach the desktop version so I could make a payment without an account.
		PayPal makes having an account an insufferable experience.
		I won&apos;t do that again.
		Meanwhile, the Bandcamp website refuses to support Google Chrome, which is browser the mobile browser claims to be when set to report itself as the desktop client.
		I had to repeatedly switch the user agent back and forth as I flipped between the PayPal website and the Bandcamp website trying to find the version of the PayPal website that did not require an account.
		The Replicant mobile browser does not seem to offer the option to manually set the user agent string, so I can&apos;t just have it claim to be Iceweasel or something.
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		Scratch part of that last paragraph.
		It appears that the PayPal mobile website does in fact sometimes allow payment without an account.
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		After much wrestling with the site, then complaining to PayPal, then even more wrestling with the site, I was finally able to buy that Marc With a C record.
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