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by vxNsr 2898 days ago
I'd guess however any service that requires account confirmation to work.

This sounds like a solved problem, though I don't really know.

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Not everyone as solved it. It is an actual issue that people have.
No I mean that seeing how widespread click-to-confirm emails are I'd think there are best practices for how to implement them to avoid fake clicks. Whether those ideas are followed by everyone is another story, but all the pitfalls that people are pointing out apply in one way or another to the password system as well.