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I understand what you're saying, but my mom sure will think its frustrating that a company she does business with is going to challenge her beyond the normal ex
by frumper 5y ago
I understand what you're saying, but my mom sure will think its frustrating that a company she does business with is going to challenge her beyond the normal experience because apple lets her protect her privacy. After all, she's telling the company who she is by logging in.
- TurningCanadian 5y agoThe company challenging her beyond the normal experience is forced to because until she logs in, she is indistinguishable from an attacker. That's the price she's paying for perfect privacy. They're not doing it because they want to annoy anonymous users; they're doing it because they're not getting any signal that they can trust this connection. That's the price you pay for removing reputation, and no number of Apple Relay users can change that. Website operators can't simply start trusting completely anonymous connections simply because there are a lot of them. That's why I say Apple should be communicating this to users: there's a price to pay for anonymity. You may see more captchas, you may get challenged with 2FA more often, etc. Not to mention, you might be making it easier for actual criminals to hide amongst the other traffic. When she logged in, the privacy issue becomes moot of course, yes. At that point her credential can be trusted the same way as before.