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walrus01last Wednesday at 11:10 AM1 replyview on HN

> Many banks and government websites don’t even support it

Because their web developers are too lazy to write anything to proper standards. They're doing some kind of lazy "Check for Chrome, because everyone must be running that, if not, redirect to an Unsupported page".

I've yet to find a website that "refuses" to work in Firefox which doesn't work just fine when I use a user agent switching extension to present a standard Chrome on MacOS or Chrome on Windows useragent.


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CoastalCoderlast Wednesday at 11:44 AM

Are you sure they're all lazy?

Another pretty common experience for developers is wanting to do things "the right way", but being overridden by management.