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That would be a nice benefit, or if the cardreader were to be able to be used on sites that could also justify it giving you your card info. They also plan on eventually hooking with reader into voice assistants, so that if you shop with those you can do so
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If the card reader does indeed let you get the standard numeric info from the card which you can then type in to any old form anywhere, I could see an advantage in the system, since manifestly I'd rather not be asking my bank or someone else to read my card numbers I
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One thing I was wondering is, if they can do this for a website specific ordeal with the card reader, I'm sure there has to be a way to be able to do something with a similar approach using your NFC or Apple Pay for similar services on other sites, with a more
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The less sites that permanently have your card info on file, the better. It's why I, for example, use Paypal whenever I can. Site's getting paypal tokens is more secure. Although that's kind of what chip cards are for since your number isn't passed on, just a single-use
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Not saying it was or wasn't the priority, I just didn't think that it was necessary, that's all. But if he's spent his time coding e-commerce software, then I have no idea what I'm talking about next to that. I've just never been bothered by entering info, especially
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I was told by the CEO that the biggest driving factor behind producing a wireless chip reader is because they also want to release a mobile version of the marketplace software.
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Also, Clement, the chipreader was not the top priority. The priority was to make an accessible interface to hundreds of stores that was consistent and clutter-free. The dev could've had people type their info in, but, probably from his experience in programming e
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As far as proprietary software is concerned, since I will say that is a valid concern, I actually am happy to say that apart from the user interface there is nothing proprietary about it. Usb cardreaders are nothing new, it just so happens that this is the first service
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It isn't so much your comment as the underlying assumption that, as you just stated, suggests that we aren't aware of how credit cards are designed. I am aware of the fact that there is more visually going on than what is simply there by feel, as are many people
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@ DarkThe chip reader does nothing to your card, you can still use it anywhere that accepts them, all it does is read the card's information for you so you don't have to type it in when you are making a purchase. There is nothing at all to stop you from using the same
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Yeah my last card expired 11/31/17, I got the info using OCR so don't F-ing tell me it can't be done. Now, lighting, the pattern on the cards, all this makes for less than optimal conditions, I am not challenging that assertion. What I am doing is saying
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@43Alexa has learned to rickroll us all... oh god. I'm sad I didn't even think to try that myself though, wonder if the Canadian one did anything fun? Guess I'll have to find out next time.
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Notwithstanding though, most apps nowadays still allow you to scan in your card instead of entering all the details. And Orco's comment about those of us totally blind from birth being unaware of the way cards are visualy is a litle offensive. Just because we have never
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I've tried all the tips for OCR with cards, but can't get it. I've got an iphone 7 with seeing AI, and a pearl camera with FS openbook. The pearl gets great results for letters and books and stuff, but says nothing useful for cards, whether I have the light on or off
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I just looked at the amazon UK returns procedure using chrome and NVDA, and although it's possible to do it, just like it is with IE and NVDA, it's not behaving the way it should. You have to sort of muddle through, but I can't fully test it because that would mean
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Lovely party Geoffrey, but there's a turd in the punch bowl.
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Re: Bye, bye, Alexa
I just looked at the amazon UK returns procedure using chrome and NVDA, and although it's possible to do it, just like it is with IE and NVDA, it's not behaving the way it should. You have to sort of muddle through, but I can't fully test it because that would mean
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@Orko, Firstly please just relax, no need to being tense just because your holding a different opinion. I'll say myself, my issue with a card reader tied to one website is rather similar to dislike of Itunes. Suppose I buy a card reader for this site and use my card
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Orko, yeah. I figured I'd just hop on here and tell people to do a thing I've actually never done myself. I'd also like to inform you that the developers of just about every credit card app out there would like a word with you, They all allow you to scan in your cards
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@63 well sorry you can't figure it out, but it is quite possible.I've also had no issues browsing Chrome's website, with the exception of the returns form as someone mentioned, which is a bit of a cluster cluck I have one click ordering turned on though, so I can just
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I would really like to hear an honest report from these people telling us to OCR our cards after they've tried to do just that with a card they no nothing about.I suspect these people have been blind most of, if not all of, their lives and have never actually seen
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I would really like to hear an honest report from these people telling us to OCR our cards after they've tried to do just that with a card they no nothing about.I suspect these people have been blind most of, if not all of, their lives and have never actually seen
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Right on Exodus! My feelings exactly. Especially since paywithchip is probably not in Canada.. and I store my card info on amazon anyhow and there's no need to enter my card information every time.
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It was indeed the section for card details that was playing silly beggars on the Amazon site, however as I said that was with internet explorer. I suspect this is a browser issue rather than specifically a website one and is another reason I've now almost permanently
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shopper on the UK and US amazon sites here, I don't see what everyone is getting their knickers in a twist over. I'd say that the UK site is a tad less cluttered over all but I can use both with equal functionality. The only thing with the US site
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Both the US site and Canadian site are laid out in pretty similar ways... so I'm still not sure what people are strugling with. But it may indeed vary by location.. but I've shopped on both sites with no issues. I do it a little too regularly, in fact... lol. I wish
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Thanks alot Jack and Orko, and yeah Jack, it does not work animore.
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Woohoo! I just found out my Google Home Max and Mini will be delivered today!Since some people have expressed interest in hearing about my experiences with it, I will start a new thread when it arrives and start with unboxing it.See you then!
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Precisely where I was going too. And on that same page, the Amazon site may work different for different folks. Makes me wonder if the site is genuinely laid out different for different countries, as I've seen the UK one for example, and vs the US one that we use it's
Re: Bye, bye, Alexa
I have absolutely no problem that ironcross32 doesn't like the idea of needing his physical card to put into a reader to make an online purchase, none at all, different strokes for different folks. I draw the line, however, when he decides to be disrespectful by calling
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I never have trouble with Amazon while shopping, it's just filling in the return form or trying to change card info. It gets a bit hit and miss then, and it's been like that a long time as I think Orko said earlier. NVDA does better than jaws, and I haven't tried Chrome
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The Amazon site works perfectly for me, too.And [[wow]], how did you do these prankes with Alexa?I want to do some, too.
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Chiming here on one thing... I don't know what issues people have on the amazon website. I routinely shop on it using NVDA and chrome and have no issues at all. It's so easy that it actually gets a little dangerous... I haven't run into any accessibility issues, at all
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As I said previously, this is another reason I just don't do the whole amazon music thing at all, is either extremely inaccurate, or tells you you need to sign up for unlimited, and given inaccuracy I'm not about to do that. Its in the games and skills that Alexa
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Agreed, but I wouldn’t normally use it for that sort of stuff anyway. I have lots of songs in different playlists, so when i’m in a shit mood, i’ll put my sad playlist on, for example. Point being, if I have a playlist full of shit I want to listen to, I don’t need
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Getting her to play certain albums, especially non popular ones is nearly impossible, I don't like that aspect of it. Doesn't matter what or how you say it, she just doesn't do it.
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I gave up trying to shop with amazon on the pc ages ago. These days I normally just use the IOS app, or Alexa for that matter. More accessible, and in the case of Alexa, saves me from using that small amount of energy it takes to type my card info on my phone. :d.
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Moderation! @Ironcross and Orko, if I could bang your heads together right now I would! by Lord Vader's dark and all powerful elbow! can we not just have a civil discussion please! whatever happened to amicable disagreement! Okay moderation hat coming off now. Myself, I
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A shame it’s not available in the UK. This sounds really interesting.
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@draq:If your reader breaks, you request a new one. I don't think they've had to deal with broken readers but if they pass them out like they're candy, I'm sure they will accommodate you if it were to break. The cardreader is free of charge.
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Right, well, I would like the option of not having to swipe my card through a reader if I'm shopping from home. That's the only thing I was getting at. It's cool that you can use your card in any case. My main concern would really be if the reader breaks. If it does
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Now, to lighten up the mood a bit, a montage of all 4 of the Alexa April Fools pranks since April1st has come and gone. I say 4 because an interesting bug/accidental unscheduled thing happened in round 3 that I totally did not stage.
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I don't care one way or another, I'm just not gonna let this dude aggro on me and not say anything.
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@ironcross32 and @orco both fair points, but again I say the successrate of ocr varies greatly with the camera you have. Might I suggest Brandon you lighten it a bit as ocr is what I'd call a workaround at this point, and the pay with chip is guaranteed to work at least
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Right, you know everything, master of the universe as always. God, what's wrong with me I haven't knelt down to you already. As always, whenever someone opposes your view point, you throw a little hissy fit.OCRing the front of a card is possible, but challenging
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A store in Romania or the UK will be the best.
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@ironcross32OK, I challenge you to take a credit or debit card you've never seen before and OCR it and get the card number, the expiration date, and (LOL) the CVV or security code off of it accurately.You won't be able to get the card number or expiration date because
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Interesting discussion about cards. I've been wondering what I'm going to do in the future about card details. I personally would love things to go down the road of having to insert my hcard into a device and not have to enter the info. I see that as no less convenient
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@G-rad I see where you're going. However @ironcross32 the cardreader is not cashregister size if that's what you're thinking. It's literally just as big as a usb sd card reader. Even so, spending hours on the Walmart site because of its deficiencies is not fun
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The simplest way to put all this is:Everyone has things they like or like to do. Not everyone will agree on style, taste and what they consider to be convenient.Some people like chunky peanut butter, some like smooth, and some don't like it at all.We all have
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its possible to OCR the card and get the information off of it.What's to try, I don't want a damn card reader in my house. Also, you have no room to talk about people acting like children.Yeah, its a trade off, convenience versus security, the key is to find the optimal
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And the point is that it makes it more secure. You know where all that card info is stored if you have an autofill? Cookies. And don't quote me on this, but I've never seen any 2048bit rsa, ssl/tls encryption on those. It all seems to be aes256bit, the industry standard
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And the point is that it makes it more secure. You know where all that card info is stored if you have an autofill? Cookies. And don't quote me on this, but I've never seen any 2048bit rsa, ssl/tls encryption on those. It all seems to be aes256bit, the industry standard
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Have you people trashing this card reader considered that one of the advantages of the chip reader is that it frees the visually impaired from having to read the card number or worse the CVV or security code on the back of their card?I've used it several times already
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Why would anyone want to have to put their card in a reader each time they want to make a purchase in their own home, that's just dumb.
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The two main problems I have with Amazon is unlabeled buttons that they've been told about years ago that they simply don't fix.The other problems I've encountered is lines of controls coded in a way that prevents screen readers from being able to separate out
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Hi.I am curious, what accessibility problems do you guys have with the amazon website or app? I am mostly purchasing through the app because browsing is easier, and there I haven't yet encountered any accessibility issues like unlabeled buttons or things
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Draq, That's just silly when you are in a store, you have to pull out your card to every time you make a purchase, do you complain about that too? How is this any different?I personally like the security of knowing that the only time the marketplace and software have
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The only annoying thing about that Pay With Chip thing is it requires your physical card, unless there's an option to use your number instead. Why in the world would I want to hook up a reader to my computer and then get my card out every time I want to buy something
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Orko wrote:Maybe voice recognition isn't the right word, some examples of what frequently happens.I ask Alexa to play the Trine soundtrack which is in Amazon's library, and I get things like For Crying Out Loud, or something else other than what I asked for. I try
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Orko wrote:Maybe voice recognition isn't the right word, some examples of what frequently happens.I ask Alexa to play the Trine soundtrack which is in Amazon's library, and I get things like For Crying Out Loud, or something else other than what I asked for. I try
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jack wrote:Brandon, any chance you could've gotten a defected unit? My mic is apparently not that bad for calls, and as long as the line is quiet it hears dtmf tones pretty clearly.It is possible. The issue I see is that there is a lot of noise from the microphone
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I decided to go whole hog and bought a Google Home Max and am getting a Mini as a free bundle with the Max. The Max will go in my living room and the Mini in my bedroom. I have no plans to use either for making calls, I'll use them as I did the Echo as assistants
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I for one have had no problems with Alexa. The echo dot is an awesome alarm clock or something just to listen to when you're chilling out. I love telling it to grab something off of tunein and fall asleep to that. Or have it grab like water sounds or something.
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Space is another consideration. Both the Google Home and the Google Home Mini are too big for both my taste and my room. Besides, I don't want to speak to a donut.
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Regarding my Alexa use, I will agree that it is more problematic than google home. The problem I've seen is that you really have to speak commands word for word, the natural language processing is much farther behind. Plus, google play now has audiobooks, so that's one
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Brandon, any chance you could've gotten a defected unit? My mic is apparently not that bad for calls, and as long as the line is quiet it hears dtmf tones pretty clearly.
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Echo plays propaganda grandma way to often. I prefer the voice solution, that no matter who runs the radio I want to tune to, that it works every time. Google is winning currently, but their infrastructure sucks because you have to buy two things, or spend $300 to get
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By the way for anyone interested, that marketplace is called paywithchip.com. It's an accessible storefront that provides consistent menu-based access to many different stores, Walmart, Amazon, Bestbuy, you name it. The searching of items, browsing the list/finding
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On kind of a side note, I am actually preparing to abandon Amazon in favor of a new marketplace designed specifically for the VIP community. Amazon is one of the 40 stores they currently have in the marketplace and they are adding more stores all the time. The one
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I will say I do appreciate the issue with music, the amount of times we ask alexa to play something we've already bought and get something random instead, or get asked to by amazong music unlimited, this is also why I am not bothering with music on the echo dot
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@simba @hadi.gsf Friend: What time is it?Me: It's, uh...Alexa: Listening chime.Me: Shut up!Alexa: Recognized chime then abruptly shuts up as requested.Here's another example.Me: Alexa, spell artistic.Alexa: Artistic is spelled, a, r, t, i, s, t, i, c.Me: Alexa, spell
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Hi.Well, I didn't ignore that, and that's the reason why I actually asked an American Friend of mine who lives here to try out Alexa and challenge her with playing different songs, albums or artists, we haven't tried radio stations yet.For clarification, personally, I
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Maybe voice recognition isn't the right word, some examples of what frequently happens.I ask Alexa to play the Trine soundtrack which is in Amazon's library, and I get things like For Crying Out Loud, or something else other than what I asked for. I try adding
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Go team Google home Got mine a couple months ago & hooked it up to my led lights & my google audio cast in every room enjoying it
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Hi.There is a special construction for the echo dot. in a nutshell, it's basically a charging station and an external speaker. You put the dot in at the top, connect the micro USB and the 3.5 MM cable and you have a portable echo with a good sounding speaker and a bit
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"many problems"? like?I've not heard any complaints on echo's voice recognition, but then again I don't own any so i can't come up here and defend it.But the thing is, If you want to have alexa in your home, the best way is to have more than one echo dots. Th
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Hi.I don't get your problems people, Alexa is working fine, voice recognition is also quite nice, I hadn't had one missed command or anything like that till I have it, a bit under a year now.It does what it is supposed to do, play music over my sound system, give me
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I respect that. If I had my vision, I wouldn't use Apple products at all anymore.
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@stevejobs I agree, sort of. Anything is better than siri, yes, but I'd say Alexa is just barely ahead of it. This, of course, is my opinion, feel free to disagree. I happen to like my google home mini a lot more.
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I am currently satisfied with Alexa. Anything is an improvement over Siri.
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I'd appreciate that. Having had a google account for quite some time and one droid in the past couple of years, it would be nice to se how things progres on your end.
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If you're interested, I can comment on my experiences with it, once it arrives.
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rofl I couldn't be bothered with it. My wife and I got a dot for Christmas and used it, um, a total of 2 times. Honestly, there just isn't enough to do to justify my keeping it. Google's platform does indeed sound quite impressive.
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Well, after fussing with it for a year and seeing no real effort from Amazon to improve it, I am abandoning the Echo and Alexa.Besides its frequently bad voice recognition, it has many other problems that have been there for most of the year that Amazon doesn't seem at all
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