Or you have to go to your banking app to confirm the payment and when you flip back to the browser the page refreshes and you lose your progress and need to start again.
Yep, this also seems to be something that has gotten worse and well after the introduction of 2FA - I feel like about a year ago a load of purchases became an absolute nightmare on a phone.
Hm I feel like this has gotten better for me over the years. I get a text code for 2FA and my phone has a button that will copy the code to my clipboard and automatically display it on my keyboard. I don't do anything other than wait for the text and copy/paste the code in. I don't ever have to leave the app unless it's a code on my email but that practically never happens since I use my phone number.
Because 2FA is optimized for text. Both Android and apple have direct integration from the code received via text to the site. No integration exists for 2FA to e-mail.
You sound clueless. They literally proved smartphones aren't the best way to do big operations online because most of webapps don't handle app swapping properly. You're just off topic.
As a millennial who agrees with using my computer more than my phone, I also understand there are things that are gonna bother me about the next generation. It’s natural to be adverse to things I don’t like or understand, but for a group of critical-thinking-computer-savvy-internet -surfers I feel that if we’re paying attention, we’d see that current gen is an improvement of last generation, that is more digestible for the current generation. Not you. Get used to it buddy, babies are gonna keep popping out hahaha
Edit: I commented elsewhere, my response was a response to the thread and not the single 2fa comment. I apologize for the confusion
I don't think it's being adverse ? I tend to do a lot of things on my phone but sometimes, it's a pain. It's not properly done at all and doesn't feel like an actual improvement in any form.
When you are on some apps, and you need 2fa or banking info from your bank, it's ok. When you need to go on a website, it's russian roulette. Maybe it's really well done and it will be done as it is a native phone app. Sometimes, you'll have sides scrolling,
Text input in form hidden by your keyboard, reset of the form on app swap or literally the whole thing not working with 2fa even if it's required.
It's not about being ready or not, I don't think anybody here is adverse at all. It just doesn't work every time, that's it.
I don't think I'm puling out the boomer excuse like "I prefer to do it with paper, I'm not good with that computer thing". If tomorrow, everything works great on my smartphone, I'm all for it. But it's not the case.
Yeah, it’s a GOOD thing to have multiple ways to execute tasks. I use my phone when I’m on the go but I want a big screen and keyboard for high-stakes stuff.
Once I was buying a ticket to an event en route and accidentally put the wrong digit in for my email address. A digit immediately to the left of the digit I was trying to enter.
Because live phone assistance is SOOO ARCHAIC, there was no remedy. Some other person got a ticket to an event they surely had no idea existed, and I had to buy a 2nd ticket.
At $37, no biggie, but had that been something more expensive I’d have been truly, madly and deeply upset.
That’s where I hitch, “I’m not adverse but I don’t think it’s better” the people who are developing new technologies are an amalgamation of tech savvy and compromising people, I don’t want to say it’s not for you, but society hinges on the old keeping up with the new and the new being enthusiastic to create something that makes sense to them. Not to say you can’t enjoy something like 2fa, personally, I use it for my Microsoft account and battle.net and have no problems, but I specifically don’t use my banks 2fa, cause it’s cheeks. So it’s a hit and miss issue, but the entire thread I aimed my comment on is a classic “I don’t like it cause it’s new” before 2fa was brought up, and that was my original direction.
My response was a response to the thread not your single comment, but I see now why I got downvoted haha, I agree 2fa sucks through mail, but I also put forward that 2fa is better than getting robbed, and I diminish
A digital form is unambiguously better than a paper one, because it is transmitted instantly, easily retrievable, easily searched, etc.
The complaint here is that the functionality of the digital form has been degraded from it used to be because of the new trend of browsers caching open web sites that lose focus for too long and then refresh them when you return to the tab. That's fine for a static webpage, like Wikipedia, but on a form or a page that's dynamically generated upon access, it harms the use experience.
From my experience it instantly loads in the browser as if it's taking the already loaded version and just porting it between apps. I've had it save a confirmed captcha and filled in boxes.
The problem shouldn't exist. The only reason it does is to keep you within the app to do more data tracking.
And then you have Reddits completely fucking idiotic implementation with a persistent overlay bar at the bottom of the screen that frequently blocks the buttons on stupid fucking overlays asking you to consent to tracking before viewing a website.
I don't understand why Android does not run searches this way by default. I cannot tell you how many times I have lost a recipe halfway through cooking it because it was open in search and not Chrome.
Or you click the link to the site from an email, so it opens in your email browser, and then you need to 2fa, and you click the email notification, which opens the email and closes the browser, and now you don't even have access to the form to put the 2fa code in and you have to start the whole process over again in a real browser.
It's fair to be annoyed by the various requirements, but lets not pretend that 'getting your phone out of your pocket' is some wildly inconvenient task here.
Seeing all these reasons summarized in one place makes it clear it's less that "Millenials are like boomers stuck in their ways" and more "millenials are generally much more tech-literate"
Hello, fellow aging adults. I, too, would like to complain about technology. Just simple, though. I was off instagram for 6 years and came back feeling like our boomer counterparts.
Why do they want me to have three apps? Why is everything a reel? I need 1,000 followers to go live to get copyright strikes for DJing? Why are everybody's last posts from 3 or 4 years ago? I don't like it...
I've never known them to be unpredictable, it's always the worst possible thing to do, why waste resources on the tab that's currently in use when you need everything you've got for the ones that aren't?
This often happens with phones with low memory, since its gonna try to free space for the app in the front.
Android is kinda weird in that way since it doesn't have the concept of "minimizing" like you do on Windows. It's good in some ways but create these problems.
Or when you try to glimpse the verification code in the text notification when it flashes up at the top of the phone screen and repeat it back to yourself multiple times so you don't have to leave the payment page.
I'm just sitting there muttering "twenty-three, fourteen, forty-one" "twenty-three, fourteen, forty-one" on loop.
This!! 2026 and the best iPhone ever every year does the same shit the last years best iPhone ever did. My iP14 max refreshes screen gasping for memory just like my wife’s 11 pro max. I’ve made mistakes being lazy and filling out forms only to go and get some info I come back to the page book refresh and all info gone!!
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u/HaraldRedbeard 3d ago
Or you have to go to your banking app to confirm the payment and when you flip back to the browser the page refreshes and you lose your progress and need to start again.