Confirm password fields reduces conversion rates. Google has such a chokehold on the market that I doubt they care about that and might be more interested in potentially reducing password reset traffic after miss typed password inputs. Though in fairness I think it's doubtful if there is even a benefit in that area from having confirm password fields. At least if you have a proper unmasking or "show password" option while registering.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

At least if you have a proper unmasking or “show password” option while registering.

I just tried on both Voyager and Photon, and indeed none of them have an "unmask" button for the passwords. @aeharding@lemmy.world and @Xylight@lemdro.id, do you think it would be possible to add that?

Ironically, the default Lemmy UI does:

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Argh I wish browsers handled that themselves for password inputs

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

If a website doesn't let me view a password, I use the inspect element to change the input type.