Safari has issues with other websites as well and I believe it has to do with its security and refusal to all too many redirects. Chrome, just like all Google products, is wide open, allowing all sorts of tracking and bad behavior by companies wanting to use it. AT&T is simply forcing the use of a browser they have manipulate and grab as much personal information from the user as possible. I refuse to use Chrome, I refuse to use AT&T products (dropped them awhile ago), and I dislike satellite companies (also dislike Comcast but they're the lesser evil and only real game in town).
I get that Google is offering to provide me with a free web-browser that cost them many millions of dollars to build --if I let them spy on me for whatever purposes (presumably to relentlessly market to me) and I politely reject their offer. If some companies like AT&T's DirecTV subsidiary want to use the contract I generously gave them to pressure me into take the deal with Google, then they can let me out of the contract or compensate me for the loss of that feature and all of the hassle related to dealing with it.
This is so typical of AT&T (I worked for them for 34 years). They have no concept of customer service. They probably made some shitty deal with Google, either that or their coders are lazy and incompetent. The farther I get into retirement the less loyalty I have for the outfit.
DirecTV Now was doomed from the beginning for not having local channels in most ares, no DVR and lack of Apple TV Single Sign On provider support (like regular DirecTV). I took my free Apple TV and quit the test as soon as I could. Now, no IE or Safari compatibly - the AT&T geniuses are famous for being late to the party with the worst possible products to offer that never seem to be updated.
AT&T has been flogging DIRECT TV to me for months because of my iPhones [since first iPhone i 2007], well, this puts a nail into that coffin. No thank you AT&T.
I get that Google is offering to provide me with a free web-browser that cost them many millions of dollars to build --if I let them spy on me for whatever purposes (presumably to relentlessly market to me) and I politely reject their offer. If some companies like AT&T's DirecTV subsidiary want to use the contract I generously gave them to pressure me into take the deal with Google, then they can let me out of the contract or compensate me for the loss of that feature and all of the hassle related to dealing with it.
Chrome is nowhere near as bad as people like to make it out to be here. It's a very good browser, and runs alongside Safari and Vivaldi on my computer. Safari is my default, but I do use Chrome and Vivaldi for different apps (sites). The thinking that one must always use a single browser on a computer these days is silly. Treat them like application wrappers and choose the best one for the job. I actually use Chrome for watching Netflix all the time, because of the seamless Google Cast integration.
I do think DirecTV is making a mistake here. I suspect that it's some IT buffoon behind the scenes that "loves Google" and "hates Apple". The days of having to use a specific browser to access a website should be long behind us.
Maybe they are using a streaming protocol that only Chrome supports? WebP? WebM?
This is SUCH a steaming pile of horse shit it's not even funny!
Give me one, just ONE technical reason why Safari can't be used anymore, I dare you...
Just today was dealing with someone who was adamant I had to use Chrome due to "incompatibility with the site"... Fired up Safari, proved him wrong, and his response, "I know it'll crash later, don't use Safari, it's garbage"... Fired up Chrome for kicks, fans kicked in, and battery started dropping, and the irony, it crashed on the page!
I've been undecided about Direct TV versus DISH and this stupid decision by AT&T to drop Safari tops my personal scale in favor of DISH. And when Direct TV goes, so does my bundling prices with my AT&T wireless, so that will free me up to switch from AT&T Wireless to T-Mobile.
I'll bet AT&T reverses this slap in the face to the upscale/upmarket Apple users. It would appear to be an arrogant and major miscalculation on the part of AT&T, but certainly not the first time they've made major mistakes in the marketplace,
Apple vs. AT&T ...hmmmm. AT&T ought to be very careful who they pick a fight with .... they run the risk of Apple buying them with pocket change from Apple's huge cash treasure chest!
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Chrome is built on Safari's engine.
So you had no idea that ATT is tracking you? Safari can't prevent it anymore than Chrome can.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/atts-plan-to-watch-your-web-browsing-and-what-you-can-do-about-it/3/
Maybe they are using a streaming protocol that only Chrome supports? WebP? WebM?
Give me one, just ONE technical reason why Safari can't be used anymore, I dare you...
Just today was dealing with someone who was adamant I had to use Chrome due to "incompatibility with the site"... Fired up Safari, proved him wrong, and his response, "I know it'll crash later, don't use Safari, it's garbage"... Fired up Chrome for kicks, fans kicked in, and battery started dropping, and the irony, it crashed on the page!
Told him to f-off...
I'll bet AT&T reverses this slap in the face to the upscale/upmarket Apple users. It would appear to be an arrogant and major miscalculation on the part of AT&T, but certainly not the first time they've made major mistakes in the marketplace,
Apple vs. AT&T ...hmmmm. AT&T ought to be very careful who they pick a fight with .... they run the risk of Apple buying them with pocket change from Apple's huge cash treasure chest!