Post #2425674
2026-04-01 08:09 UTC
@fooflington@infosec.exchange I assume Moz are looking to make error pages less confusing/intimidating for less technical users - which is probably reasonable.
What's not reasonable is that this page gives wholly incorrect advice - "try again in a few moments" is not gonna work for a 403 or indeed any 4XX since they're all client/request errors.
FWIW/tangentially related, I'd still love an "I'm technical, show me all the details" setting on web browsers/software/OSs.
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@interpipes@thx.gg 2026-04-01 08:45
@tdp_org@mastodon.social @fooflington@infosec.exchange there is no good reason whatsoever to do this over providing a plain english (or whatever localisation) explanation of the main codes and to still show the error code This perpetual dumbing down is not required, at all, we just have to meet users where they are, not expect/treat them as too stupid to understand *anything*
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@noratrieb@hachyderm.io 2026-04-01 09:48
@tdp_org@mastodon.social @fooflington@infosec.exchange This advice doesn't seem unreasonable. It's like that a normal user encountering a 403 is a website configuration issue where it has a broken link or they messed up authorization on an endpoint, both of which may be fixed in the future