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You hit a nerve. I have to go through two reCaptchas to prove that I am not a robot so that I can pay my children’s school activities. Why would they care if I
by cgio 5y ago
You hit a nerve. I have to go through two reCaptchas to prove that I am not a robot so that I can pay my children’s school activities. Why would they care if I am a robot that wants to pay them? For some time checking in for COVID in NSW Aus took 3 reCaptchas if you were in private mode on your browser. Similar in many government services where they are pervasive and injected right in the middle of potentially very private workflows.
- leesalminen 5y ago> Why would they care if I am a robot that wants to pay them? I’ve seen scammers find obscure payment portals and run through a bunch of card numbers to see if they approve/deny. Recaptcha prevents that. It’s obviously not the only way, but it’s low dev effort and it works.
- withinboredom 5y agoThis is an easy fix. Just require being signed in and only allow payment with a valid child attached to the account. You can allow anonymous payments only if you have a valid child account code.
- MertsA 5y ago>Why would they care if I am a robot that wants to pay them? Because payment systems that allow for cheap transactions are often leveraged to test stolen credit card data before making a transaction in person.