why do websites, where you buy stuff, still need that “don’t use the browser back button to click away when you are making a purchase”. Have we not got a better solution?
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Well…. No.
We used to be in the position where that didn’t exist and the payment site would just forward you to a URL that indicated that payment was complete.
But then people would go to that URL without actually paying and getting free stuff….
So now the website itself waits for the payment to complete (during which time you would still get charged (or at least a hold on the money) regardless of you leaving the site, which is a problem for the customer and not the website).
Basically it’s there so you don’t leave the site, get charged and then have to have the site cancel the transaction, which would upset you.
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