A modern web payment login process
I couldn’t help but chuckle about how desensitised I’ve become to this:
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Click the link to the well-known external payment processor.
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Type my username (from my password manager).
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Click Continue.
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Click all the “traffic lights”.
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Click Continue.
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Be told I missed some, and to try again.
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Click all the “crosswalks”, after figuring out what a “crosswalk” is. An angry hiker? This isn’t a word we use here, so that’s an 1i7n fail.
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Click Continue.
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Type my password (from my password manager).
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Choose a two-factor auth method out of a list of one.
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Click Continue.
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Wait for the 6-digit code.
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Type the 6-digit code.
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Read premature validation text warning me in scary red text that the code I’m in the middle of typing “should be six digits”.
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Click Continue.
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Click Agree and Pay.
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Wait to return to merchant store.
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Receive timeout alert.
Wait, what was I buying again? Was this service trying to tell me I needed to save money? Touché.
