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It's because old school passwords allow reasonable security, yet don't allow planting a user-identifiable cookie on the client machine.
by jojobas 3y ago
It's because old school passwords allow reasonable security, yet don't allow planting a user-identifiable cookie on the client machine.
- jonathanstrange 3y agoYou shouldn't have been voted down. I've been using IMAP, SMTP, and Pop3 for the past 30 years without a single security incident. Meanwhile, I've had many accidental lockout problems and even had to abandon accounts because of 2-factor authentication and other paranoid security measures like arbitrary "device identification" algorithms. I swear to God the goal of this security theater is only to force customers into web-based logins so contents of emails and user behavior can be tracked in an Orwellian fashion.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThey said just identifiable though, and passwords are definitely user identifyable. And most users only have a couple devices so tracking that once you already know the user is usually very easy even without a cookie.
- minitech 3y agoApp passwords are useless to Google as a tracking measure and are a much more secure option, especially across the entire user base.