News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious right or left wing sources will be removed at the mods discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted seperately but not to the post body.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source.
Posts which titles don’t match the source won’t be removed, but the autoMod will notify you, and if your title misrepresents the original article, the post will be deleted. If the site changed their headline, the bot might still contact you, just ignore it, we won’t delete your post.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials or celebrity gossip is allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis.
7. No duplicate posts.
If a source you used was already posted by someone else, the autoMod will leave a message. Please remove your post if the autoMod is correct. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners.
The auto mod will contact you if a link shortener is detected, please delete your post if they are right.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
~~Enabled by default as far as I can tell.~~ I don't know anyone whose kid has done something like this and there's no way none of them tried.
Nevermind, I see that it was Amazon so I went and checked the app (not a frequent Amazon shopper). No verification, you can just click Buy Now
I don't think that's possible here, Are you in USA? IDK if it's EU or because I'm in Denmark.
We had it some years back, but our available payments systems have increased security since.
I don't think it's a good idea to have purchases drawn from you account with no security. And I don't think it should be legal.
Do you have confirmation if you put in your card number? If yes, that's good, but I also don't think that's a EU-wide thing.
They can store the card info, but we need to confirm purchases with an SMS code.
No apparently it isn't, I got a response from a German who says they can buy on Amazon without security validation.
Yes, USA. I was thinking of Google Play purchases when I first left the comment (which definitely has confirmation)
It's Denmark. I live in Germany and Amazon doesn't require authentication when buying something. Maybe I turned it off at some point but I doubt it
OK then it's our payment systems that don't allow it. Probably by law?
When you cross the Great Belt toll bridge in Denmark, you can pay with the universal "Dankort" without authentication, but they have a special permission/agreement for that.
I don't use Amazon, but on Steam we used to be able to make unauthorized payments, but that is not possible anymore last I tried.
I actually considered trying it to see for sure, but I can't think of anything worthwhile to buy right now.