• kitonthenet@kbin.social
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    These schemes all have the same problem that reddit and Twitter have: they need me more than I need them. If your website or app or whatever won’t work if I’m not on the right device I won’t visit it, and that’s not a bad thing

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      It’s a bit more complicated than that, unfortunately.

      What happens when Microsoft adds something to their web building tools that forces all visitors to websites using these tools to use IE? Or when your bank (or even worse, utilities) start requiring Windows and IE?

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    The danger would be important entities like governments and banks using attestation. Then you’d be limited to using only Chrome, Safari and Edge, and Firefox could kiss its ass goodbye.

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      Bank: my bank is too boomercore to ever implement something like this, we only recently got 2fa

      Government: my government still makes me file my taxes on paper and mail it to them so I’m ok for now

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        Banks and governments could get trapped into this because a third party vendor implements a system for them that includes this.

        Like Salesforce’s “Lightning Experience sites” only supports the latest versions of iOS and Android, as well as only supporting chromium based browsers and Firefox.

        A lot of banks and government services run on that platform, and not all of them are going to be smart enough to pay for a custom solution that increases device support.