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Re:Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites by cordite on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:22PM (#22940378)
To defend against credit card fraud in an automated world, it’s kinda the only thing we got: an automated risk assessment.
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Re:Stripe records user movements on its customers' websites by frei on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @08:54PM (#22940948)
That's true, but the data collection doesn't have to be this automated. It's a tradeoff for ease-of-use.

Everyone used to use Paypal, right? That doesn't track anything on your site in the default flow, but it requires sending the user to paypal.com, where they will have to enter even more information. But at least it doesn't collect mouse movements on all users on non-payment pages.

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