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I love password based login (lemmy.world)

submitted 4 weeks ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 47 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

alternatives to passwords are just excuses to harvest info

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 27 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not if it comes to hardware-based passkeys I would argue

[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

true, but i would also argue that's a much less utilised alternative. most people don't even know what that is even though it's a great redundancy.

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It is quite normal to ask for an email address at registration even when using password based authentication.

[–] Postimo@lemmy.zip 17 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

*it has been become quite normalized

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

No email would be fine for most people, but then there would be the small number of folks who will cry all hell when they forget their passwords and/or secret questions and can't get in...

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 4 points 3 weeks ago

It was more or less the default many moons ago, then just a username became more common, now it is back to email or some third party login