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Nothing says “security” like using the word “secur[e|ity]” 3 times on a popover on your shitty financial webpage that denies the use of the forward & back buttons for reasons that I'm sure have everything to do with bad engineering and nothing to do with security.
(This is National Savings and Investments, a UK state-owned savings bank.)
The first draft of this toot was the words I said out loud, alone in my home office (“fuck off!”)
Here's what happens if you hit “Refresh”, which I did because I wanted to test whether the page's terrible layout was influenced by my use of the “Large Text” accessibility setting.
My in-person reaction was the same as last time, but louder.
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@wjt Not nearly as bad as github closing a PR because I rebased it on top of the wrong branch (which had no common history, according to GH) and making it impossible to reopen or amend the PR after rebasing it properly.
@wjt I'd say its the worst banking site, but well, that's a lie. I also hate that to login you need two pieces of information so I have to write down the magic number as autocomplete won't remember it
@wjt ..and literally every page load on ns&I has a nag pop-up saying that Firefox is unsupported
@brunopostle really? I'm using Firefox – I wonder why I don't see the same.
@wjt I think fedora set the user-agent header rather than spoofing chrome
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The number of sites that I have seen do this that are also running on mainframes is non-zero, which would honestly kinda check out for a bank...