Who Else gets press and hold 56 times a day ?

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HaroldRamis
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Really absurd at this point,   what kind of back end programmers are they hiring, Bangladesh ?  Botswana ? 

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SA Admin Shubham Shresth
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Hi,

After discussing this with our security team we learnt that many of the Press & Hold occurrences happen to users that are using selenium based automation tools and any kind of user agent spoofing.

We highly discourage this and hence have implemented this security layer.

Please check if the devices being used to access Seeking Alpha are not compromised in any way, or do not have such tools.

Hope this helps! Feel free to reach out in case further assistance is required.

Regards,
Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

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SA Admin Shubham Shresth
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Hi,

After discussing this with our security team we learnt that many of the Press & Hold occurrences happen to users that are using selenium based automation tools and any kind of user agent spoofing.

We highly discourage this and hence have implemented this security layer.

Please check if the devices being used to access Seeking Alpha are not compromised in any way, or do not have such tools.

Hope this helps! Feel free to reach out in case further assistance is required.

Regards,
Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

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Quote from SA Admin Shubham Shresth

Hi,

After discussing this with our security team we learnt that many of the Press & Hold occurrences happen to users that are using selenium based automation tools and any kind of user agent spoofing.

We highly discourage this and hence have implemented this security layer.

Please check if the devices being used to access Seeking Alpha are not compromised in any way, or do not have such tools.

Hope this helps! Feel free to reach out in case further assistance is required.

Regards,
Shubham Shresth
Data QA Analyst, Seeking Alpha

"many of the Press & Hold occurrences happen to users that are using selenium based automation tools and any kind of user agent spoofing."

So.


Many is not all. Plenty of people have the issue just trying to, for example, read an article and then see a ticker in the article and doing a right-click open to bring up the security in another window so we can look at the stock or ETF being talked about without having to close the article.


I have NO automation tools and this issue happens in more than one browser.


This is a you issue as look at how many people post about it and of all the websites I use with security, login, etc. from banking, to state government business records, SafeSend, brokerage firm, credit agencies, etc. only YOUR site has this stupid problem.


Either you are using the wrong tool for security or you believe that articles about investing are only available on SA and must be protected more than any other record on the internet.