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Losing as much as a couple percent of annual sales to prevent card-stuffers from getting through—which can knock you off your payment processor completely—is a
by yamtaddle 3y ago
Losing as much as a couple percent of annual sales to prevent card-stuffers from getting through—which can knock you off your payment processor completely—is a pretty easy call for a lot of businesses.
Not sure how the math works out for ad-supported sites, but it pretty strongly favors "moderately-aggressive automated blocking" for those taking direct payments.
- newaccount74 3y agoIt may be understandable if it's on a checkout page. But Cloudflare often enough blocks users from reading content pages. Cloudflare could just serve their cached static content instead of showing Captchas.
- raverbashing 3y agoThere are several system level and application level ways of dealing with automated traffic, card stuffers, etc. Sure, a general solution is better, but since everything today is docker running node.js running without a modicum of caching or appfw in front, not surprised things are so fragile