Submitted 8 hours ago by DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
My wild guess: Is everyone now just using apps for every single little thing? So now using the mobile site is considered “fraud behavior” and using apps is “normal”? Like is this what their “fraud detection system” do now?
Apps get more permissions than websites do. Websites being bad is on purpose to make you use the app so they can collect and sell more data.
Its enshittification
No, but only because I do not use apps, so do not have a reference to compare with.
If I can’t do it on your website, I don’t do it.
I guess you’re not gonna ever file for unemployment…
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Oh funny thing. My dad, a citizen of China, had to renew passport and China now forces you to use their app to do the renew… lol
Comming soon to the west… ETA 2026
ID.me is super painful, but you can verify yourself without a smartphone or any apps. I’ve done it.
Which country do you live in ?
Provider, dns settings, browser ,search machine, adblocker, extensions, VPN , all can cause delay or block on a website .
No problems here
USA
I always use real IP on Chrome for any money activity
So often I get a “card declined” bs
Like seriously, you can swipe it in the store and it works…
If you look at most apps they’re just wrappers around the websites. Usually they’re using the exact same domains for payment processing so I can only imagine that the payment details are 99% the same.
Personally I haven’t experienced an increase in card declinations on websites vs apps.
Same here. I’ve never had a card declined on a website. I’m decidedly anti-app and haven’t ever had a problem
But don’t they have to send that info to the card issuer?
Like don’t the merchant side have to log and send your IP addresses, what client (browser or App), and like every little info about you to the financial institutions so they can run it through their stupid “fraud prevention” system…
So I assume perhaps somewhere alone the line, some shitty AI assumed that “normal behavior” is “using the App”
(Just a wild guess, no clue how it works behind the scenes)
Nope. You can literally just send them the exact fields needed for processing a transaction.
I doubt it. I find it far more likely that the merchant is arbitrarily declining if they can’t scrape enough of your data to sell later…
Clothing sites nearly always make my phone (iPhone 13) run hot after a few minutes of browsing. Often the phone as a whole will start to get really slow (thermal throttling?) and I have to force quit browser and maybe restart iOS.
I have a 13 Mini and even Lemmy makes that happen sometimes but it’s gotten way worse for me since the update to iOS 26.
I agree completely! So many sites have forced me to download an app to accomplish what I need!
It’s mostly better than it was in the 90s when things first started trying to be more than just static text and images. But government websites are somehow even worse.
Paulemeister@feddit.org 1 hour ago
Even the new version of my banking app seems bad in comparison to the old one. Sure looks nice, but having a white screen until the web app has downloaded isn’t really good design