When my bank's site disallows my login, it's usually because they've made improvements to it; ha ha ha

On 8/8/2022 4:54 PM, Brian Vogel wrote:

On Mon, Aug 8, 2022 at 05:05 PM, Arlene wrote:

[With regard to requiring an ad blocker to be turned off to use a website.] Rubbish!  It’s a pile of rubbish if you ask me! 

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And you'll get 100% agreement from me.  I have no problem with sites that ask if you would turn your ad blocker off because that's their primary revenue stream, but those give me the choice and if I decline (which I most often do) I am still able to use the site.

[With regard to requiring an ad blocker to be turned off to use a website.] Rubbish!  It’s a pile of rubbish if you ask me! 

But, you also wrote:

When you cant log in on your bank page you’ll know you’ve been hacked. 

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This is not strictly true, and can cause undue panic.  Those of us who use browsers that have, as their focus, privacy, ad blocking, and security above and beyond what "regular" browsers do experience certain websites that do not "play well" with them, and the most common ones that do misbehave are banking websites.  I have never bothered to deep dive into what's causing the conflict.  My partner's local bank simply will not let him log in using Brave; as soon as it appears you should be logged in you are immediately logged out.  But if we switch to Firefox or Edge, and both of which are using uBlock Origin, the login works fine.  

The two credit unions I use don't care.  But it's worth being aware that if you use a privacy/security focused browser, it can cause malfunctions with various websites at times, and failed logins are one of the most common malfunctions.  The site wants to do something the browser does not allow it to do, and the site just says, "thanks, but no thanks," and refuses to do anything further.

If you are having issues like this on an unprotected browser with no ad-blocking add-ons then I'd be way more concerned.
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Brian - Windows 10, 64-Bit, Version 21H2, Build 19044  

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