Logging in is a 17 button process these days.
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This one makes me irrationally angry
no, it's rational
It has the same energy as insurance companies or ISPs that only offer good deals to new customers.
Why does this meme presume a log in is even necessary!!
It doesn't
My job uses a Yubikey, authenticator, and more than 6 passwords, one of which for some damn reason at random points in a day thinks I'm on a seperate machine and forces me to get a verification code in my email. On top of that, one password resets every 3mo, another at 3 weeks, and the others are like every 8mo. All remember past passwords, will not allow any variation or similarity (you had a twelve char password with a number at the end in 2021, try another). It is a damn struggle creating a new password 12 years in now.
How much time do you spend on that per week?
I got a new phone and tried using the Merlin birding app but now I need to enter an email, receive an email, confirm using the link in the email...
...and then enter the user name and password I've been using to log into the app for years.
And it's not just once but every time I use the app, it's a nightmare, and I don't want to give any extra information I don't have to.
I just paid all of my bills and had to login to each account. Once a month torture session lol.
i just have my bank do that.
I don't like to automate it because I get paid every other week and it falls on different days. I just pay my bills first thing when I get paid so I know for sure it's paid and didn't bounce
Don’t forget to accept the cookies [YES] ~[no]~
Website Title [Sign Up] ~[log in]~
Except you accept cookies in X browser, but not Y browser because that is an emulated system to run a 30yr old program they never bothered to update because it worked great on x86 machines but was never designed for 64 bit.
Don't not deny allowing access to remove access to cookies!
Finally bout up sign in ~ "iS tHis YoU???!!? [yes][no] "
I don't mind 2FA and Passkeys, they're mostly fine. But I hate, hate, hate forced logins via magic links or 2FA by email or SMS.
2fa over email is light years better than 2fa over sms for a whole slew of security reasons.
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Logging in shouldn't feel like passing an exam. Just let us access our accounts!
if ousing 2fa code is "like passing an exam," maybe the internet is too hard for you.
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The best bit is you go through all this drama and then some bloke finds a web form someone forgot to disable and gets access to everyone's account with one click anyway.
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I love those send me a text 2FAs and they say the code will expire in 30 seconds. And they take forever to come in.
That's what it feels like waiting the text and it finally comes in.
"If you have a disability, simply use this alternative that's even worse if you have a disability."
Never seen that one ooof
Your password is 30 days old. Make a new one. It can't be the same as any of your last 37 passwords.
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