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by bertil 2699 days ago
For what it’s worth, it’s very common for close people to share their Deliveroo account, a bit like Netflix.

I would never but one of my two housemates was very confused why they couldn’t have my password so that they could look at the menu and each add their option to the order. (The third housemate was also a developer so he was surprised that I could remember it and I got sermoned about 1Pass over pizza.)

I also have heard of cases of close (female) friends who know each other’s password; when one had a health incident (miscarriage), the other took upon herself to order for the first one, to comfort her. She tried from her own account but failed (couldn’t remember the name of the restaurant), so connected to her grieving friend’s account, changed it to use her debit card. It was fully appreciated, but a surprise.

“Authorised” in that sense falls somewhere between:

- I know who those people are;

- we are part of the same household;

- I know that they can have access to my account;

- they made sure that I know they are on my account;

- I actively allowed them to be on my account right now;

- the device is shared.