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There is no demand for password only protection without recovery because it is not available on the mass market. Just like there was zero demand for cryptokitti
by Yizahi 9y ago
There is no demand for password only protection without recovery because it is not available on the mass market. Just like there was zero demand for cryptokitties a few months ago and now there is significant demand. You can only see a demand if there is and option for something and people use/don't use it or after conducting a poll.
- brongondwana 9y agoI get your point... though I'm not sure that cryptokitties are a great way to sell your idea here. They're the kind of tulip/fidget spinner craze that we'd invest a ton of effort into, sell a few for a while, have to support for the next 10 years and still face a noisy backlash from a few annoyed users when we finally retired it. Overall, net loss. In the case of "no recovery allowed" accounts, the development effort is minimal, but the number of people who would turn it on "it says higher security and someone on hacker news told me to, it must be good" and then proceed to lose their account... I bet they'd be noisy when the realised they'd not only lost all their email, they'd lost their payment to us, because they'd have no authority to request a refund. Oh wait, they would - chargebacks. Notoriously hard to fight with an online service, particularly when you're not providing said service any more. And it's always the full amount charged back too, not just the unused portion of the service. I'll float the idea of allowing people to push right hard up to the "do not resuscitate" tattoo on their account, but I'm not going to pretend it doesn't come with some risks to us.