How hard is it to implement email verification?
not 100% related but i think login should be less user friendly
“here take this 512 byte hash and store it and it’s you and if you lose it or have it stolen i couldn’t care less”
email verification is hard to do right (as said in top reply), oauth is annoying to get set up but more secure and all big providers have fancy recovery and login methods
no oauth? get the hash or go away
Right? It’s demented!
The apple one is enforced by apple if you want to go on the app store. The rest follows. Personally I blame apple for starting this bullshit.
If i cant log in with an independent email then I’m not logging in.
I had the same problem yesterday as I was investigating tailscale. And while I get it for that service, there’s no reason for some of the other services that ask me to link my other accounts to them as a means of logging in.
No. I will not consolidate my log-in profiles under companies that dont see me as a person, care about my privacy, and are working with hostile governments to track me.
Semi-Anonymous or nothing. Period.
If I don’t have the option to use email or continue as guest I refuse to use whatever the site or app is.
I’ve always hated that shit. Why would I want to add dependencies to my fucking logins?
It reminds of this:
There were more options on the website, but I forgot the name of the website, and I cannot find it now… :(
What is VK?
Well I’m not clicking that
“Oderint dum metuant”, indeed.
Mkay…
I believe it’s vkontakte, basically a russian facebook.
VK is a Russian Facebook equivalent, invented by Pavel Durov who himself was eventually cast out of Russia and went on to build and run Telegram. I think he’s in France.
No, he ist in Dubai
Ah, the easiest way to know if someone is an asshole.
Sounds like an STD.
It is.
Because data collection. Trade simplicity for data collection.
Because for the vast majority of people yet another password, or even yet another 2FA code is an anti-feature.
Can I log in via dick cage?
Can I login with Pornhub?
Oauth should become federated, just as email.
Then the browser should generate the buttons based on which oauth services you actually use.
Because we are employed developers and this is what the bosses wanted. There are lots of things I made that make me facepalm or I think is stupid but im a peon and my only other option is to find a different job. Where there will also be dumb shit I have to code for a paycheck.
I guess the silver lining is ya can get 7 months of any “1 month free” subscription without having to create a new account.
