Good for Uber, and I understand the want to prevent the players' safety, but seriously, that's ridiculous. The fact that this deal is in place says a lot about the maturity of professional athletes.
How about this: Add a mailto link that sets the subject to some type of token, they click the link, hit send, app catches the email, sets the correct address accordingly.
This is actually a very good idea. But most users have a throw away email address for registrations and one for personal use. And for me for example, if i click a mailto link it will open the mail client with my personal email so I'll have to copy paste all that into my gmail throwaway email that may not even be opened. So I'll have to open the browser, click on........ But is indeed a good workflow alternative to consider for email verification.
Valid points. I hate mailto links in general, and can totally see the workflow getting messed up by not having your default mail client set to what you actually want.
However, I think most people know how to at least access their email (always logged in), so provided you could get them into their client, with a token, quickly, with a small number of clicks, might be interesting. Of course, it could be spam central.
Forging mail headers is easy enough to do that I wouldn't consider this approach to validate an email address. Sending a validation email is much harder for spammers to bypass.
Non-engineers notice mine all the time too. I'm so used to wearing though (and sort of forget that I am sometimes) that usually there's a few seconds where I'm very confused as to how they know I'm an engineer.
It's also great for tapping out a rhythm on any hard surface you can find.
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