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Before smartphones in Japan, this is how mobile websites did signups. Every phone had an email address and you verified it by sending a blank email via a mailto
by grose 4y ago
Before smartphones in Japan, this is how mobile websites did signups. Every phone had an email address and you verified it by sending a blank email via a mailto link. Restaurants and Karaoke places had QR codes on their menus for this.
Seems like this practice died out when messaging apps (LINE) displaced mobile email. I thought it was kind of cool but managing spam filters was a pain.
- fomine3 4y agoWhy this methods was popular is because it's hard for user to input their own (and correct!) email address. Mailto link is far easier way to tell the valid email address to a service. Perhaps now is OAuth/OIDC era.