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Re:Why not to whitelist operating system user agents by kafkaIncarnate on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:41AM (#29224829)
The small browsers thing sounds about right. Check the link he posted about the email someone received on Reddit. It's posted like it's a screenshot from Mutt or some other terminal mail editor. Looks more like they are flexing their email terminal usage not just copy/pasting the message (png for text? come'on!).

Probably using qutebrowser or something else like that.

Re:Why not to whitelist operating system user agents by chessmango on Monday November 15, 2021 @04:35AM (#29225508)
Just from the Reddit post as well - doesn't feel overly user-hostile or deserving of the 'JP Morgan Chase Bank admitting to me they hate Linux and BSD desktops and actively block them' title anyway.

If there's active blocking based on OS (from replies in this thread, evidence seems to be slim) then that's not great, but this seems to be pretty one-sided so far.

Re:Why not to whitelist operating system user agents by kristopolous on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:47AM (#29224858)
platform.js 1.3.1 is in there (https://github.com/bestiejs/platform.js/)

I see this from the pretty-printed version

    function a() {
            return /Android|webOS|iPhone|iPad|iPod|BlackBerry|IEMobile|Opera Mini/i.test(navigator.userAgent) ? "Device" : "Desktop"
        }

So let's try to just say I'm say, Opera Mini, still no dice. I tried a bunhch of these to no avail. I don't know how the OP got this.
Re:Why not to whitelist operating system user agents by kafkaIncarnate on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:54AM (#29224898)
Well that kind of matches the message he received from the website. It looks like they are just trying to notify you that there is a Chase Mobile App available (which for the average phone user, would be 99.9999% better than using a browser). Personally I wouldn't use a phone for banking but some people don't have laptops/desktops.
Re:Why not to whitelist operating system user agents by tentacleuno on Monday November 15, 2021 @08:14PM (#29235365)
> Personally I wouldn't use a phone for banking

Using your bank's mobile webapp is very useful when they, for some god awful reason, decide to use SafetyNet.