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I love password based login (lemmy.world)
submitted 9 hours ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] peacefulpixel@lemmy.world 43 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

alternatives to passwords are just excuses to harvest info

[–] Legianus@programming.dev 16 points 2 hours ago

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

[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Postimo@lemmy.zip 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

*it has been become quite normalized

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 2 points 2 hours 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