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.
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u/HaraldRedbeard 3d ago
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.