Professional web developer and hobbyist programmer from the Welsh Marches. I'm particularly interested in performance, accessibility, and reducing carbon emissions from software.
I fully appreciate that controlling how your product is used is basically impossible on the web. Saying that your product focuses on fighting online fraud (and that what you do is already endemic on the web), however, does feel like a bit of a cop-out; as it totally ignores the implications of any other possible uses people might make of it.
For me personally (and I'm sure for many others), spying on everyone who visits a website in-case they are one of the small percentage of bad actors mentioned does not feel like a reasonable trade-off to reduce additional authentication. Especially as that is a trade-off that is almost certainly being made without a visitors consent or knowledge.
I appreciate you being open and transparent with the developer community, but how open and transparent is your company being with visitors?
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I fully appreciate that controlling how your product is used is basically impossible on the web. Saying that your product focuses on fighting online fraud (and that what you do is already endemic on the web), however, does feel like a bit of a cop-out; as it totally ignores the implications of any other possible uses people might make of it.
For me personally (and I'm sure for many others), spying on everyone who visits a website in-case they are one of the small percentage of bad actors mentioned does not feel like a reasonable trade-off to reduce additional authentication. Especially as that is a trade-off that is almost certainly being made without a visitors consent or knowledge.
I appreciate you being open and transparent with the developer community, but how open and transparent is your company being with visitors?