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Hey pc, good to see you here on HN. Things like this bother me as a Stripe customer who advocates strongly for privacy. I've asked repeatedly for options which let me have more control over what exactly is happening on my page - or to have a JavaScript-free flow on Stripe.com that I can redirect users to in order to complete their card details. Another easy option would be to use subresource integrity so that I can audit each release of Stripe.js, but your team has turned this down, too. Of course, I could go full PCI, but PCI compliance is a big burden for small businesses. Do you have any plans for making Stripe more accomodating of users with privacy concerns?

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Hi ddevault -- we would like to do this, and I'm very supportive in principle (and, per GP, we are perfectly fine with anyone not using Stripe.js), but our current product/engineering focus is on trying to build better tools for the businesses who are losing tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars to fraud. We think we have to first help the businesses who need help immediately. We'll probably then circle back to build products that explore more points on the [efficacy of fraud prevention] - [PCI burden] continuum.

Thanks for the info, pc! I'm worried that this is a dismissive answer, though. Stripe has been in business for 10 years, and fraud has been and will continue to be a constant battle for you. When can I expect to start seeing other problems like this prioritized?

Definitely no dismissiveness intended -- apologies. While Stripe has been in business for 10 years, Radar (our fraud prevention tool) has only existed for 3.5. We've made a good deal of progress in that time and I would guess that it's 1-2 years away from being sufficiently complete that we can start to seriously focus on things other than fraud. (As it happens, I just had a conversation about this with the guy who leads it.)

I'm not looking forward to another 1-2 years of waiting - or 3-4, schedules slip ;) - but so be it. Thanks for clarifying!

I'm in the same boat with my communication based startup. I'm being very cautious about any third-party interaction and the heavy activity from the stripe JS wasn't compatible with that. I had to take some goofy steps to ensure that the Stripe components were limited to just the payments page and didn't bleed over into anything else.

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