From: V@nguard.LH
Frank Slootweg wrote:
> Andy Burns wrote:
>> "Carlos E.R." wrote:
>>
>>> On Android phones, you probably are using the Google Messages App, and
>>> this you can access on any computer without installing anything, via web.
>>
>> I do use the synchronisation of SMS from my phone to my tablet, as that
>> stays a persistent connection. But I find setting up shared SMS with a
>> web client is only a temporary affair, and re-scanning the QR code each
>> time is as much hassle as entering the 6 digit verification code anyway.
>
> Doesn't the 'Remember this computer' setting prevent the need for
> "re-scanning the QR code each time"?
Wouldn't that require keeping cookies and/or DOM Storage data?
I configure my web browsers to purge everything (except passwords) on
their exit. On Android which does not unload apps when you "exit", but
instead just closes their window, and leaves them running in the
background, the purge-on-exit doesn't work. Edge and Firefox on Android
have exit/stop options in the menu, so you actually can exit them when
you close them. Chrome does not. Because everything locally cached
gets purged on the web browser's exit, "Remember this computer" never
works. Nothing left behind for the next web session to remember.
For logins, I rely on the web browser's password manager to pre-fill the
login fields. There are some sites that use Javascript to add those
elements after page load, so the web browser's password won't work. The
login fields are presented too late. I added the Bitwarden add-on which
compensates for the inability of a web browser's password manager to
pre-fill the login fields, but sometimes Bitwarden fails, too. However,
I can click on its toolbar icon, and quickly use its Fill option. If
that fails, I can click on its toobar icon, and copy the username or
password into the clipboard to paste into the login fields.
None of that helps to facilitate the 2FA login crap. Some sites let me
save passkeys, so all I have to do is let the web browser's password
manager or Bitwarden fill the username, and skip the password field to
use a password. Never had to leave the web browser getting
notifications on my phone or wait for e-mail. Alas, not all sites
employ passkeys.
I could use an authenticator app, but I found some sites won't all use
the same one. I'd have to install multiple authenticator apps. My bank
required a particular one (to skip the 2FA crap), but that authenticator
stopped providing an Android version.
> I've just set up , so I don't know if
> this setting does what it implies, but Google's 'AI Overview' implies
> that it does,
I went there, and paired up the web app, as demanded, to my phone with
the Messages app there. Another way to see texts, but it's still in
LIFO (old-to-new) order. I suspect this is so the latest text is
nearest the input box for sending a message.
For using a webchat client, in the past I went to Google Voice, and used
its messages (texting) option. Yeah, still LIFO order, but I find
typing on a real keyboard while viewing a real monitor much easier and
definitely much faster than anything on a phone. I can also use the GV
app on my phone. Since my GV number is to where texts get sent (I only
give out my GV number, not my phone's cellular number), I can use the GV
app or GV website for texting.
The web app you mentioned requires sync to the Messages app on the
phone. I suspect that's because the web app does not have access to the
phone to get the texts, so it links to the Messages app that does.
I'm an old fart, so texting is not my thing. That's why I have GV
forward texts as e-mails, but those are slower to receive. If a site
supports passkeys, I use those.
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