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Yeah it's weird when websites show the sign up button, but hide the log in button inside some little shit of a menu.
Like... are people coming back to your website after signing up...? I would have thought that repeat log ins would be the more common use case by far.
They're making their site inconvenient so you'll download their app. Every fucking website and product has an app now.
This is it. I attempted to order some pizzas from Pizza Hut on their website because they had a deal going on. I remember their website being pretty good like 10 years ago, but now it was such a buggy mess it literally wouldn't let me order a pizza. I would go through the system up to the point where it says "add to order" and it would just glitch out and make me start over. I then switched to my PC because I figured it would be easier and the exact same thing happened. I ended up getting frustrated and ordering pizza somewhere else because their website was so shit. I am sure their app would have worked fine but I am not installing 500 apps for every shitty chain restaurant I go to.
Too bad I don't give a shit. I'm not downloading an app just so i can pay my water bill
Could be that the priority is to get more sign ups or that once signed in, customers typically stay signed in
At this point giving them some bones might be preferable. I'm sure there have to be SOME extra bones in here somewhere.
This puts the tooth fairy in a bit of a new light...
this is a rant about microsoft
how on the fucking earth are you the biggest company and have hands down the worst login imaginable. you know for a fact people have multiple accounts for your platform, it's incredibly common to have a work specific micorosoft account after all. AND YET you lock in a specific email for login??? and you don't even put a bloody "i'd like to log in with a different email"???? oh there's a "use a different login method" button it's all okay right? wrong that button still doesn't let you change the login email! but now you can log in with a code sent to it :).
what if that """""convenience"""" you're trying to give people by checks notes, not including an incredibly common button that takes you to the default login page without a specific email baked into it, is actually an impossible pain in the ass? what if that email is someone else's and then just hit the "remember me" out of habit? go fuck yourself :). go into the browser setting and manually delete the cookies or if you can't or don't know how to do that then just fuck yourself :)
not to even fucking mention how if you try to log into teams desktop client app that info is going to get fucking applied to the entire windows account??? without asking about it clearly either it just fucking does that! it just fucking links to your local account instsntly
who asked for that microsoft? what deranged motherfucker in your board of directors came in high off his tits and uttered the cursed phrases needed for those feature to fucking exist?
and is that guy the only one allowed to speak? the only who's vocabulary extends past "great idea! let's do that"?
how is your user account management worse and more annoying than any virus i had?
i literally just needed to log in to someone's account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call. and that silly little action has taken fucking hours to undo, and all done with force "how to delete someone else's email from microsoft login"? delete your fucking cookies or team cache. "how to unlink a microsoft account from windows"? don't forget to input your pc password! dw about how we didn't ask for it when we just linked it to your local account, you need it now :) oh and unlinking isn't removing, you gotta do that one too!
there has been genuinely nothing else in the past decade that has made me more frustrated, more fucking seething with anger, than dealing with the fallout of needing to use someone else's microsoft account for an hour
This is is why you should use incognito/InPrivate mode when using Microsoft sites. It will always give the full login prompt.
The real frustrating thing is when you have a personal account and a work account under the same email address... Separating those two is a massive pain.
well yeah now i know that, the maddening part is that with any other platform what i tried doing at first wouldn't be an issue, log in, do the thing, log out, never think of it again. but nooooo, microsoft has to be special
Yep. One of the many reasons why this lifelong Windows user is not going to 11.
i literally just needed to log in to someone's account once, for an hour, to substitute for them in one call.
I get your frustration, but that's a fucking awful choice for a whole bunch of reasons, not only because of Microsoft's bullshit. You really buried the lede.
Don't share accounts people!
Have them forward you the meeting invite or reach out to the organizer to call you instead.
And if you fucking insist on logging into someone else's account again, use Private Browsing mode and the web client of Teams to keep it from touching the rest of the machine. It works fine for audio and video calls.
At any place with a half decent security policy you'd be looking at disciplinary action. At certain workplaces this would be an immediate firing.
it was a work account used exclusively for teams for online lectures, there was nothing of interest on it, i checked lol, i'm nosy
it was during a time when i was just substituting so i didn't have my own work email, and i ain't joining with my personal one when i need to be professional. after the bullshit with that account getting linked to my local system account i indeed used teams in the browser, i just didn't anticipate microsoft bullshit vol. 2 to hit me months later when i tried to log into my minecraft account and couldn't because my coworkers email got baked into it! but now i know i guess
I have Microsoft accounts for work, my admin credentials at work, my side gig, and my personal. You can not share passwords and still be incredibly frustrated at Microsoft's stupid refusal to put a "Switch User" link on the login form which autopopulates based on cookies. Otherwise I gotta go find a Microsoft page, log in, log OUT, and then go try my original log in again. This is painful if you're constantly switching accounts, as Zero Trust requires admins to do.
This makes me really value the effort I put into learning Linux.
Lucky for me I don't need to use Windoze for work either.
Do you want to save this account for future login?
aAaAAAAAAAA
This is how I got used to using different browser profiles. I’ll even open up a guest profile on a browser rather than just swap MS login for a few hours.
“We do not track you on our site.”
AdGuard: “Blocked 216 tracking requests.”
They’re not lying, they don’t track you. Those 216 other clankers tho 👀
We and our 1842 partners value your privacy.
Can you link to these? Always looking for alternatives.
started creating accounts with my previous landlord's name and addresses. I'm VERY forthcoming with his info. I'm not even pro-privacy anymore, I'm just Greg McKenna of Albuquerque NM. eat up, data collectors. enjoy, Church of Scientology. mmmmmmm that's right, yum yum 🥰
… we also need your cookie and tracking preferences. Do you want us to store all possible data about you and share it with everyone? “Yes” or “Yes, but we pretend not to”
When there is a "legitimate interest" switch at each of the 262 partners which can only be toggled off manually, one by one, and it's all on by default.
So you click the question mark to see what exactly they mean by legitimate interest, and the info pop-up says "it's when our interest is legitimate".
This should be regulated more strictly.
With a small list of only 700 data collectors!
That you have to individually confirm or deny, or you can't save!
(Fun!)
pay pal's website asks if I want to verify through text, then freaks when it discovers that it is not a phone app, but instead a webpage on a browser with no SMS functionality to ask permissions for
I always get an e-mail with the TOTP code when I want to log in.
They didn't until EU laws, so you can thank them for that.
Thank god that at least they made them ask. Another thing I'm massively happy for is GDPR. I keep getting mails in my inbox for all sort of random accounts I don't remember signing up for that I probably just checked out once and forgot about, asking me if they can keep my data, please, because if I don't reply then they can't, and they would REALLY REALLY LIKE TO C'MON FRIEND BE MY FRIEND
EU: require consent over nonsensitive junk data that's mostly for targeted advertising & isn't strictly to safeguard against identity fraud
Also EU: compel the risky disclosure of sensitive information for identification, propose rules to scan all your chats
We can thank them for getting privacy entirely backward.
*sell it to everyone
I don't remember which website, but there is one where both sign-up and log-in pages look the same. If you fill your username and password in the sign-up page, but you already have that account they log you in instead. If you put the details in the log-in page but that account doesn't exist they send you to the full sign-up page.
I thought that's pretty neat.
That is pretty neat, stealing that idea for the login page of my hobby project
I wish more people would use Gopher.
Create a cool alternative web that isn't filled with harmful degeneracy (looking at you, Tor. I2P ur cool though). I don't think JavaScript in its essence was toxic to the web, like how one snort of heroine isn't technically a killing thing. But it got addicted and all and dragged is down with its demise.
I will look up Gopher because I'm curious, but for less curious people and for other users to see, what is Gopher?
Sorry to not give a personal answer as I am struggling to write something right now, but the following source is well known within the community of those who like these kind of things.
Gopher, The Competing Standard To WWW In The ’90s Is Still Worth Checking Out
This is what I found too after specifying gopher protocol and not gopher the animal. It's a pretty good write-up.
I am definitely going to check out some gopher sites to see what this is all about.
Back in my day, the BBS forum would send you an email with your username and a password they chose, and you could change it later if you wanted to, but nobody ever did.
I write my email in the login field but my password manager doesn't show me a password. I click "i forgor" button. Now I must type my email again. No one knows why.