[UA-discuss] Maybe email addresses and URLs might not matter anymore?

[Tex]

Ok. Thanks John.

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From: John Levine [mailto:john.levine at standcore.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 5:01 PM
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Cc: textexin at xencraft.com
Subject: Re: [UA-discuss] Maybe email addresses and URLs might not matter anymore?

In article <003001d665fa$de9da0f0$9bd8e2d0$@xencraft.com> you write:
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>Jim, I was using the bank as an example, the 2 step validation applies to many sites. I take your point though
>that wechat is used instead of mail.
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>However, for security, the user should not always trust the wechat link and in some cases should type it in
>instead. Until all cases where typing a URL or an email are eliminated, native language and  UA is important.

That's not how it works. Wechat is a complete environment, which most
users never leave.  Think of Facebook only much more so.  As far as I know
there are no URLs or e-mail addresses.

R's,
John