Re:Stripe Identity
by varispeed on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:33PM
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Sadly out of reach for small projects. For example if you had a site with 100k users, you'd barely cover server costs with Ad Sense. $150k to check all of them? Would never happen :/ Maybe if they could pay for verification themselves?
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In many cases you don’t need to verify the identity of every user. You can use some signal to determine when you need ID, or require it for accessing certain products/features.
Re:Stripe Identity
by whimsicalism on Monday June 14, 2021 @12:44PM
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If you're not offering a service for $, why do you need to verify identity?
What is the usecase?
This strikes me as classic HN bikeshedding.
Spam and other malicious behaviour. It's time consuming for mods to block spammers.
Instagram also don't charge users and yet they verify identity.
Re:Stripe Identity
by arcturus17 on Monday June 14, 2021 @01:09PM
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Instagram may be verifying identity now (I didn't know... letting FB scan my id would be one of the last things I would want), but I'm pretty sure they reached a massive scale without such a measure.
Stripe's website shows users scanning their government ID documents and taking selfies.
Using that as a means to block spammers would be.... unusual.
You don’t need to verify a user’s real identity to serve them AdSense.