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301 points gastonmorixe | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 07:56 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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jchw ◴[12 Nov 25 10:53 UTC] No.45898647[source]▶
I tried to donate, but apparently I am not human:

> 1 error prohibited this submission from being saved:

> Looks like you are not a human

Good to know.

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autoexec ◴[12 Nov 25 11:28 UTC] No.45898869[source]▶
I'm not sure why they'd try so hard to keep bots from paying them anyway. If someone wants to write a bot that constantly pays me good money I'm fine with that. I might rate limit it if the stream of payments coming in can't cover the cost of keeping the server from being DoS'd, but that's not going to inconvenience a human trying to submit a payment one time.
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1. JimDabell ◴[12 Nov 25 11:50 UTC] No.45899015[source]▶
If you have small payments that can be made by bots easily, then your service can be used by thieves as an oracle to determine which of their stolen credit card numbers still work. Then you get lots of chargebacks to deal with.