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This riles me up so I will rant. I've given up remembering passwords for important accounts and just use the 'forgot me password' button to auth through email.
by 1timeaccount25 9y ago
This riles me up so I will rant.
I've given up remembering passwords for important accounts and just use the 'forgot me password' button to auth through email.
If your site or service doesn't have more than 100 million users, please don't require a password for my email. Let me log in with another trusted account (Google, Twitter, etc). I miss the days of oauth2 and the flexibility of authenticating small services.
- matte_black 9y agoNo thanks, it’s far better to handle your own user authentication and not depend on third parties.
- SmellyGeekBoy 9y agoExactly... What other data am I giving them access to by signing up with an account that's closely linked to my IRL identity?
- packet_nerd 8y agoAbsolutely no way. Google and a few other massive corporations already control way to much of my life, adding control over authentication of my online accounts is simply unacceptable. It'd be way more acceptable if it was an open standard and I could choose which trusted ID provider I wanted to use, but I've not seen it work like that so far.