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   Matthew Lyon (mattly@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 10-Oct-2026 00:09:53 JST Matthew Lyon

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   • mcc

   @mcc there’s a handful of good reasons but the primary one is that your credential management apparatti are typically not available in electron but are available in your primary web browser; this method prevents normalizing the idea that one should copy/paste their passwords

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     mcc (mcc@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 10-Oct-2026 00:09:54 JST mcc

     Tidal has an app for PCs.

     The app is an electron app.

     If you need to log in through the electron app, it bounces you to a regular web browser, sends you through a login flow, and then does the "this web page wants to open a url in this app" to receive its login verification back from the regular web browser.

     …

     WHY

     WHY

     HOW