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It's not just Adobe. Now Logitech wants me to go to a random website in order to add peripherals to my computer, and I'm met with this when I go to the page they tell me to (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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As if it wasn't bad enough that they want me to use a random internet service to add a keyboard to a usb wifi receiver, they have the balls to put this for Firefox users. I clicked out of pure curiosity, as I'm not even remotely interested in involving a corporate internet service in getting my keyboard connected to my computer. This is the message you get now on Logi Options software if you have a Unifying Receiver:

For the curious: https://logiwebconnect.com

EDIT: some people on the thread have brought up that the error message being displayed for Firefox users is due to the WebUSB API not being implemented by Firefox due to security concerns. This still does not justify having to use a web app to plug peripherals to a PC.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Training you to be phished.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This happens on Windows, right? What would happen on Linux, would the keyboard still work as it gets connected?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Is it to download the driver or for something else?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's probably using WebUSB to put the receiver in pairing mode.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So, the windows app doesn't work anymore? That's pure garbage.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I know Opera is Chromium based but according to statcounter Opera accounts for nearly the same % (actually slightly higher) overall desktop browser market share (Opera 4.48% : Firefox 5.96%)

Yet support for Opera but not Firefox 🗿

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What's this? I've never seen anything like that on my Arch Linux.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I've owned Logitech mice for years and they've all been solid. I have a Steel series keyboard and I'd like to move away from Logitech, but SteelSeries doesn't make a mouse with enough buttons. I use the G604 right now and it has the right amount of buttons for all the random productivity stuff, like assigning copy, cut, paste, paste as text, etc to buttons. SteelSeries mice either have a few buttons less than I'd like, or a moba mouse with like 30 buttons lol.

I haven't checked Razer but I haven't been thrilled with their previous designs and I just want to consolidate to just one piece of software. I've had a couple of one particular Logitech keyboard and a few of the LED would burn out and only display certain colors. And that was after a year or so.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, nope. Pull that shit and I'll find something else to use, then make a youtube video of me smashing their shit in my driveway.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Well I'm definitely not buying stuff from Logitech again

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I rarely use my windows laptop for anything but a few core tasks, I swear every time I went to do anything I need to make a new account for something -i needed to log into my laptop's inbuilt system dash then I needed to make an Nvidia account to upgrade my graphics card drivers just to play baldurs gate - which has it's own pointless launcher which wanted me to sign up...

One day they're going to give all the data to an AI and it's going to say 'why the fuck do you make people sign up for so much bullshit? None of this data is even slightly useful' then it'll launch all the nukes

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Add Logitech to the shit pile…ugh

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Does this mean no more mice and keyboards from Logitech?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

yes but look how good they score on ESG

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