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by genewitch 5 days ago
just use firefox with an adblocker like adnauseam and a fairly decent chunk of the internet stops working, including chase.com and several other massive corp sites.

I can't imagine trying to use links/lynx or a browser with less market share than FF that isn't based on chromium.
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nunez 5 days ago
Chase works with ad blockers, though.

It doesn't work if you disable JavaScript...but it wasn't always this way!

They had a mobile version of their online banking service at https://m.chase.com that was EXTREMELY FAST and did 85% of what you need to do in an online banking portal (check balances, transfer funds). They scrapped it when they moved to their current bloated monstrosity of the portal that they have today.

It was a big reason why I moved to a credit union (who outsources their online banking services to Alkami, which maintains a very tight portal and supports 2FA AND passkeys!).

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genewitch 5 days ago
i am unclear on if it's because of the adblocker (specifically i use ad nauseam which does block some JS. some.) or because of firefox. I can load it on edge every time it fails on firefox. last week, chase.com worked fine on firefox. the previous 15 months where i needed to log in, it did not.

Someone at chase isn't checking their work on firefox.

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dlcarrier 4 days ago
CDNs like Cloudflare will often block traffic if you don't leak enough data to differentiate yourself from a bot. It's usually not very transparent either, with vague error messages. They've given up on just throwing up a captcha then letting you proceed, because bots are much better than real people, at solving them.
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genewitch 2 days ago
for the record i don't let firefox auto-update, so it is possible my firefox is "too old" to properly log in to chase. I generally update firefox once every month or two, manually.

It's just how i roll. it seems to bug a lot of people that i don't want to be bleeding edge. i don't particularly mind that.

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enlightens 5 days ago
FWIW I use Firefox with uBlock Origin and Enhanced Tracking Protection, and use Chase's website almost weekly. No issues that I've noticed on MacOS or Windows
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nunez 5 days ago
When I have to log into Chase on my computer, I do via Firefox, and it works fine. Maybe you flipped something on in about:config that's breaking it?
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genewitch 5 days ago
i love that i'm holding it wrong. thanks, HN.
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