Is it safe to display PayerID in the URL?

grclala
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Hi community, 

 

I recently tried to purchase an item on a merchant website using Paypal one-touch button. After clicking on approval on paypal screen, I was directed back to merchant website, but the merchant website was loading/not responding, and the url of the page was something like merchant.com/token=xxx PayerID=yyyy, where i think my payerID is being displayed as part of the URL. 

 

My question is: is this normal and best practice? if someone gets access to my payerID, will they be able to charge fund from my account?

 

Thank you!

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