Re:For your next side project, make a browser extension
by 64392947 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:06PM
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I can understand why the first example is burdensome and don't have any quarrel with it but I can't help but lack sympathy for the second example. If your barrier as a developer is setting up 2FA I can't help but doubt you ever cared much about supporting Firefox anyway. This is like a taxi driver complaining about needing to have proof of insurance and a driver's license.
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Re:For your next side project, make a browser extension
by user982 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @06:16PM
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I'm just an old-fashioned programmer, I don't think I should have to register with an authority and submit all of my code to them just to be able to run something I've written for myself on my own computer.
Re:For your next side project, make a browser extension
by cassepipe on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:00PM
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I think mail confirmation or yubikey is fine but I never understood why I need an app on my phone for authentication. What if I lose the phone? How would I get my account back?
Tried some authenticator app on the desktop once also and got locked out of my account after that because my computer crashed and I had to reinstall it. Never again.
Re:For your next side project, make a browser extension
by alphabet9000 on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:43PM
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i very much care about supporting firefox users. for example, i maintain a separate, mozilla-signed, manifest v2 version of an extension i made [0] just so firefox users can keep using it. i do so even though this compromises my own ideals about not wanting to use 2FA out of principle.
[0] https://github.com/fanfare/googleimagesrestored/releases