I am sure there is no problem with my paypal account, but I can’t find any explain that why the AMO told me “Account is restricted”.

I don’t know whether here is a right place to ask this question, but I really just can’t find any words on google search…

Loads more addons like that, I would happily make a contribution to that and other addons.

The Pilot seeks, as stated above, “to provide a secure and international solution for facilitating payments.” PayPal is not secure, unless just referring to superficial security like SSL or account privacy. PayPal is not a bank, is not regulated as a bank, does not have bank like security, and has been proven to be insecure both in practice and from an operating model standpoint, for both donors and recipients of funds.

Especially disturbing is the quote above: “We are working with PayPal…” I am not anti-corporate by any stretch, but PayPal is greedy in the biblical sense of sinful, evil, covetous, fraudulent greed. Please evict their Trojan Horse corporate operatives.

Laughable is the above statement, “Developers will receive all the proceeds from contributions minus the PayPal transaction fee.” Not really. PayPal will receive all proceeds, and may, at its discretion, per its User Agreement that federal judge Fogel ruled as unconscionable, allow developers a portion, after indisputable fees, delays, and fraudulent drain offs.

Tom asks, “… why punish add-on developers by not supporting their work because of your own personal dislike for the donation provider?” It is not a mere personal dislike. It is a well documented public outcry. I have never seen an Internet company with such a horrible record. It has stayed in business by the brute force of having so much access to funding (i.e. your bank account) that it can afford expensive legal bills, while mainly challenged only by consumers and small business owners who generally cannot afford an attorney.

http://www.google.com/#q=paypal+problem (66,400,000 results)
http://www.google.com/#q=paypal+horror (6,800,000 results)
http://www.google.com/#q=paypal+complaints (1,210,000 results)
http://www.google.com/#q=paypal+lawsuit (679,000 results)
http://www.ripoffreport.com/Search/paypal.aspx (1,525 Reports)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/16/cryptome_paypal/
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/your-money/28haggler.html
http://www.pcworld.com/article/169843/paypal_adds_fees_sneakily.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal#Criticism_and_limitations

To have more addons is good for users because they have more functionalities. It is also good for developers because they have less pressure to develop new functionalities.

All incentives to the authors are good : from the users it is fame, recognition in every form including money, from the development team it is more suppressing “negative incentives” e.g. defining and documenting hooks, interfaces with the addon, lowering the time needed to check and modify the addons broken by the new monthly update : this means more time to code new addons !