Dark pattern abuse at its finest. You find this on all third party webstores that have decided to affiliate themselves with Shop. This has been spreading like the plague and infected a lot of webstores I used to use. If you don’t notice or forget to click on the “not now” at the bottom of the page they will create a Shop account that contains your email, phone number and credit card information without further warning. Whoever hacks into their database is going to hit a goldmine. You might have a Shop account without even realizing it right now.
And of course there is a 30 day delay for account deletion for purely made up reasons.
I must have missed one of those at some point, because on multiple occasions now, while filling out shipping/billing field on websites I’ve never bought from before, their e-commerce platform recognized my partial info and sent me a “confirmation” text well before I entered a single digit of my phone number in the phone number field.
I’m sure that e-commerce platform touts that shit as being streamlined and convenient, but I thought it was fucking creepy, and it lost each of those companies my business.
This exact same thing happened to me and this is what completely put me off from that kind of service. Especially since I had never willingly agreed to let them record this information and use it this way. I thought I had been hacked at first. It is beyond creepy. The fact that they keep trying to sneak it past you every time makes it even worse.
Also, Shopify had a data breach about their customer’s data already. I just don’t want them to hold that information on their servers.