My wild guess: Is everyone now just using apps for every single little thing? So now using the mobile site is considered “fraud behavior” and using apps is “normal”? Like is this what their “fraud detection system” do now?
Like the same card works when you order it at the counter in store… why did the site reject it? it literally worked before on that same site…
Tries a bunch of different cards, also declines…
But those same cards do work on other sites…
Like…
I feel like when you
- Use their app
and - Create an account
you’re less likely to face problems…
But using mobile website + guest checkout is very likely to get flagged for some stupid reason…
I personally believe it is on purpose, to try and get you to download the app.
Then they can get way more of your data to sell.
I’m gonna have to agree. It’s been a growing trend for years and most sites don’t even give you half the features on the site.
The other day I went to place an order for a pizza on the Dominos website on my phone and it would crash every time I tried. Went to my PC and it worked perfectly first try. I’m not downloading your fucking app when I only eat your food, like, once a year.
It gets even better. Load it on your mobile in desktop view, and watch how it miraculously works without issues.
It’s more about ads than data. It’s much more difficult for the average person to block ads on an app than on a website.
Apps get more permissions than websites do. Websites being bad is on purpose to make you use the app so they can collect and sell more data.
Its enshittification
99% of the internet is trash. Pages bouncing all over while loading, constant cookie or login popups (even with various blockers), links not connecting, old long outdated content being pushed to the front of searches, junk AI slop non-answers articles or marketing lists about a problem vs actual detailed answers…
Then there are all the various billing systems for various marketplaces, that all wanna require memberships for one time sales, before they tell you the shipping cost.
And so so much more.
It’s all heavily dysfunctional and lame and not user friendly at all anymore.
The amount of sites claiming there’s suspicious traffic coming from my IP is getting ridiculous
Same here. So many websites are now virtually unusable. It doesn’t seem to happen with Chinese sites, though.
Nah, Chinese sites would try to auto-download the .apk file 10 times lmfao
I was just trying to use Baidu Street Views for childhood nostalgia… fuck off with the apps lmfao
They also require a phone number attached to a government ID to register an account 😭
Which country do you live in ?
Provider, dns settings, browser ,search machine, adblocker, extensions, VPN , all can cause delay or block on a website .
No problems here
USA
I always use real IP on Chrome for any money activity
So often I get a “card declined” bs
Like seriously, you can swipe it in the store and it works…
Europe here , I use ironfox ,vanadium , librewolf . Never heard of real ip .
I think they mean they don’t mask their IP (as in, use their real/true IP) for payments.
