Hi Austin,
You can try checking how your DNS is set up. If you are not using your ISP, the
website may think you are in a faraway location and redirect you wrongly.
I had this issue with ANZ (Australian bank) a while back.
Check your DNS browser settings on firefox and chromium too. If they are
getting DNS from different sources, this may be a clue.
Brett.
On May 6, 2024 4:49:32 AM GMT+10:00, Austin Hook <aus...@hook.org> wrote:
>{I'm currently still using release version of 7.4}
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>{This may be of interest mainly to residents of Alberta, Canada}
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>ATB.COM -- (i.e. Alberta Treasury Branch) is a provincially owned bank in
>Alberta, Canada. In general it is nicer, and friendlier to use than most
>big commercial banks. Not so, anymore, with their web page.
>
>In the past 6 months is has gotten more and more difficult to sign-on
>to with Firefox and OpenBSD, as they have tried to make their sites more
>and more bullet proof.
>
>Now, starting from atb.com it's hard to even get to where one signs into
>personal banking, and to where it requests a username and password.
>
>It seems to go through an amazing number of redirects, and then gets hung
>up in the process. Sometimes, tapping different cadences with lots of
>control-R or control-F5 sequences, I can get through. It must be a matter
>of timing.
>
>I guess it works better with other operating systems and/or browsers. In
>fact I do have much better luck with Chromium + OpenBSD although not
>always.
>
>I'd prefer to use Firefox, so long as it exists semi-independently of
>monsters like Google.
>
>So, if anyone is interested, perhaps it would be nice if we could qualify
>to the ATB web page design team, what doesn't work well for everybody,
>and if anything they are doing is beyond being reasonable.
>
>I also wonder if anyone has problems with Firefox and other operating
>systems, accessing ATB.COM, and even getting to the personal sign in page.
>
>Additionally, even getting that far, doesn't guarantee one actually can
>get beyond the next sequence of redirects, when signing in. It only works
>about half the time, from that point.
>
>An additional reason, for us Albertans, to try to keep ATB.COM from going
>outside the normal bounds of web site protection, and hence making it work
>only from certain operating systems and browsers, is that the Alberta
>Government has become so sold on their toy bank, and it's website
>developers, that they have recently decided to put that team in charge of
>all the website development for the government of Alberta, which means I
>won't even be able to access my health records -- the online ability to do
>that they are so proud of....
>
>Whew... apologies for that run on sentence, above.
>
>Anyone game to help push the point?
>
>Sure, this is not really just an OpenBSD project question, but the project
>does have it's origins here in Alberta....
>
>One doesn't have to be a resident of Alberta to see the problem (try it)
>-- but I am curious if the trend towards using timing to allow access to
>web sites is going to become more and more common, and how to fight back.
>
>Austin
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>Milk River, Alberta
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