Hello, Try changing the version to say windows using a extension I've seen a few banking sites that will fail to load if it's not a supported OS or browser they use or recommend luckily navy fed hasn't done anything like that.
Chris Sent from Proton Mail Android -------- Original Message -------- On 5/5/24 1:49 PM, Austin Hook <[email protected]> wrote: > {I'm currently still using release version of 7.4} > > {This may be of interest mainly to residents of Alberta, Canada} > > 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 > > Milk River, Alberta > > > > >
