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

[John Levine]

If you have an Android phone you don't mind wiping afterward there's an 
English language version of Wechat in the Google Play store you can try 
out.

> Ok. Thanks John.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Levine [mailto:john.levine at standcore.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2020 5:01 PM
> To: ua-discuss at icann.org
> 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.
>>
>> 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
>
>

Regards,
John Levine, john.levine at standcore.com
Standcore LLC