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Paying with Amazon is mostly frictionless for me. If I remember correctly from my purchase on louisck.net on Sunday, it was click to get to Amazon login page, c
by prophetjohn 14y ago
Paying with Amazon is mostly frictionless for me. If I remember correctly from my purchase on louisck.net on Sunday, it was click to get to Amazon login page, click to login to Amazon account, click to use card ending in 9432, click to confirm.
- overbroad 14y agoAnd, correct me if I'm wrong, they've been delivering that level of convenience for many years and without any need for iframes. All due respect for Stripe, iframes are a potential security hole waiting to happen. iframes open many possibilities for exploits. I doubt we've seen all of them yet.
- Evbn 14y agoUm, Amazon handles credit cards for their sales. Stripe is for the the thousands of sites that don't.
- prophetjohn 14y agoBut Amazon is also for those thousands of sites. https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp https://payments.amazon.com/sdui/sdui/business/asp
- overbroad 14y agoThis is true. But I wouldn't say it is an absolute justification for using iframes, as if that was the only possible way to approach the problem Stripe is trying to solve. Maybe it won't matter. We'll see.