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The problems start to happen when buisnesses adopt this en masse. Expect all banks to implement this for example. You can use Firefox all you want, but then you won't be able to do online banking.
Standards are really fucking important to help people stay functional in a society. This is one area that the ANCAP mindset just gets it totally wrong, unless you like the idea of being a hermit.
Anyway, we are already seeing some websites basically reject browsers like Firefox because they basically give the consumer too much protection and freedom. Arguably we've seen this before, but this may be a new tier of corporate lockout of open standards as consumer protection gets thrown in the trash. Thanks America.
If my bank does this I'll take my custom to a smaller one that doesn't.
I don't think they will though, since they gave me a hardware thingy to login to my online banking from my rooted android 🫠
How will you know which bank doesn't? What if it's mandated by law or some financial industry standard?
Assuming it works like Netflix (where Firefox asks permission to run DRM on the local machine) it would likely be as simple as visiting the bank's login page to find out if they utilise this.
If it's mandated by law then I'm SOL... likely would just do my banking over the phone at that point
One nice thing about the USA is that there are many banks and they are not the same.
Chase says, “Windows, macOS, or GTFO.”
My local credit union says, “We recommend Chrome/Firefox/Safari/Edge. Other browsers may work, but we're not going to make promises about their security. We DGAF which OS you use; that's your browser vendor's problem, not ours.”
But this could change in the future, if some misguided politician decides to “do something” about all the bank accounts getting hacked…