Why not to whitelist operating system user agents

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.

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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.

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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.

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