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I love password based login (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[-] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

alternatives to passwords are just excuses to harvest info

[-] Legianus@programming.dev 33 points 2 months ago

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

[-] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months 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.

[-] brian@programming.dev 1 points 2 months ago

they don't need to know what's happening when a panel pops up on their phone, says touch the fingerprint scanner, and enrolls a passkey. it's on the companies

[-] ranzispa@mander.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

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

[-] Postimo@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago

*it has been become quite normalized

[-] kamen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months 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...