[vladfr]

Thanks for the details, indeed I'm finding out that it makes some sense from their perspective.

Still, there's no notice of Booking.com sharing your data. The fact that hotels print it out and leave it at the reception is again another problem, though not entirely Booking's fault.

I still wonder why they chose to work like this, seeing as it's so easy to implement an authorization process without sharing card data.

I see that they're starting to shy away from requiring card details, which is a good thing.