On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:04:53 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

On 13/01/2021 15:27, Nick Odell wrote:
On Wed, 13 Jan 2021 14:15:22 +0000, John Rumm
wrote:

On 12/01/2021 22:29, Nick Odell wrote:
On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 18:16:43 +0000, Tim Lamb
wrote:

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Attempting to buy some through Amazon, I got caught by their new secure
login: where you have to *tap* the message sent to your mobile! Are
geriatric/Luddites not allowed to shop anymore!
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Tell me about it! I am ordering on my laptop and my primitive,
voice-and-text-only featurephone rings with a click-through link in
the SMS. Except I can't click through on a featurephone. So far I have
succeeded by typing the link, character by character, into my laptop
browser but why can't they just send an authorisation code like
everybody else does?

Might be worth checking if there is PC based app that works with the
feature phone. Most makers have such things to allow backing up of the
phones etc and access to contacts. Many also allow the PC to be used to
view and send text messages. That makes it *much* easier to copy things
like URLs from messages.

I will check but I suspect the answer, for this cheapo model is "no."
I never use its camera because the only way to get the pictures out is
to bluetooth them over to the PC and even though the earphone and
power both use the same micro-usb nothing else gets recognised when I
connect it to a PC.

Thanks for the suggestion though: I will follow it up.

What model of phone is it?

It's branded Vodafone 340 and it really is a basic featurephone.

Nick