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I love password based login (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago (2 children)

alternatives to passwords are just excuses to harvest info

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 25 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours 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 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[–] Postimo@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

*it has been become quite normalized

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day 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