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Looks more and more like Safari is the "modern" IE
As a webdev I can confirm that I have exactly the same experience supporting Safari that I had supporting IE 15 years ago.
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Oh man, enterprise "security" firms used by banks and other old behemoths are a cancer for users. If you want your website to actively abuse users (especially one with special needs and pretty much anyone that doesn't fit into an "made up average person mold") get those people on board and listen to the dumb things they say. I still can't believe that whole business managed to interpret 2FA for whole EU as "you MUST…
The product I work on now logs users out after 15 minutes. It's a service where the average user would probably spend a good few hours of their day. We're actively harming the user experience (and driving paying customers away) because of some "expert" advice.
I'm not really sure what the best fix is; there are many possible ones. I've seen total clowns pushing decades-old nonsense be taken seriously by competent businesses simply because they thought "hiring an expert" was enough, like they're a plumber or something.
Just another day in web development with Safari, I'm not even surprised anymore. I've encountered so many of those "total nonsense" moments.
Such as?
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Autocomplete has one huge, glaring disadvantage: the passwords are stored on your computer, in reversible form.
Yes, but let's be fair, it's a galaxy better than writing it on a post-it or password booklet, and still way better than using a memorable passphrase which will get reused and then leaked. Besides, you can encrypt the local storage with a master password (and if you accept online as a requirement, you could even add 2FA to that).
Is it? If someone is physically in your home you are in greater trouble anyways and even then they likely aren't going to be grabbing a notebook. Just keep it somewhere nearby but hidden (notebook in a drawer on the desk).
Why would someone even use Safari instead of Chrome? Hell I would rather use Edge.
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1. Privacy 2. Battery 3. Performance
Your no. 1 reason is being questioned by the article, though.
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The issue was that it was ONLY SMS - they immediately deprecated private certificates, 2FA "calculators" and other 2FA schemes. After the security backlash they now backpedaled and implemented 2FA with ONLY apps. Apps that ONLY work on iOS and Google Android. I had endless calls from family where they couldn't access their banks anymore because they had a Huawei phone or a dumb phone. Banks are citing "security" as e…
Noticed this as well. It's a minor inconvenience for someone who is organised or is used to store secretes securely but a complete nightmare (including a security nightmare) for your average Joe. Thanks EU, thanks governments for your precious regulations that keep us safe. I wonder how many similar stories there are in fields I'm not an expert of.
I talked with fintech founders and they mostly say "sure, we could give better user experience and then have a fight on our hands with auditors because we didn't fill out all the checkboxes from the reputable security consultancy that 'interprets' the requirements"
Related, there is a "bug" in chrome that disabled autocomplete="off" on input elements, marked as won't fix https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=587466
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No. This is a small but important detail: Chrome is the new IE. IE wasn't mainly a problem because it didn't support things, rather because it was - in the beginning - superior, but also had all sorts of non standard behaviour that Microsoft pushed and that made competition crazy hard. Oh, and also because they pushed it relentlessly in all ways including - as was later confirmed in court - illegal ways. Exactly like…
Both are the new IE, one push features without caring about the rest of the ecosystem and the other refuses to implement standards without caring about the rest of the ecosystem. The end result is that the web right now has stuff that works only on Chrome and stuff that works everywhere besides Safari. And the fact that iOS users can't change their browser forces developers that want their projects to reach the maxim…
There is standard, and standard as previously Chrome only feature that Firefox felt pressured to implement and was then a posteriori made into a standard.
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Oh man, enterprise "security" firms used by banks and other old behemoths are a cancer for users. If you want your website to actively abuse users (especially one with special needs and pretty much anyone that doesn't fit into an "made up average person mold") get those people on board and listen to the dumb things they say. I still can't believe that whole business managed to interpret 2FA for whole EU as "you MUST…
I use Coface for work to check credit for potential customers. Instead of a password, they require a 6-digit pin. It can't be auto-filled or entered with the keyboard. There's an on-screen number pad that you have to click on and the numbers are scrambled - they show up in a different arrangement every time. Such a pain!