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Furthermore, if someone is using a password manager like they probably should be for most sites (since average people are not going to remember more than a few
by harshreality 15y ago
Furthermore, if someone is using a password manager like they probably should be for most sites (since average people are not going to remember more than a few passwords, and password reuse is bad), there is no benefit to this system.
- moe 15y agoIndeed. People should rather review and make sure their registration and login forms work seamlessly with password managers, at least the popular ones (lastpass, 1password, etc). All too often I run into a form that is either not auto-filled or where some javascript magic fails when it's autofilled (e.g. the page claims "password too short" until I fake some keystrokes manually). Hint: If your login procedure is annoying then I'll come back less often (or not at all) for that reason alone.
- roryokane 15y agoTrue, but I think most average people do not use password managers. As far as I remember, IE, Firefox, and Chrome all ask to save passwords using a toolbar that slides in at the top or bottom of the page. All average users I have seen when that toolbar appears have ignored it. (I don't know how people react to Safari's modal dialog box, though.) Probably they consider the toolbar "one of those computer things" and avoid it because they're worried they wouldn't understand it. And if they read it, they might be worried about whether they're really understanding the feature correctly and just ignore it in the end to be safe.