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I love password based login (lemmy.world)

submitted 21 hours ago by bdjegifjdvw@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

It is quite normal to ask for an email address at registration even when using password based authentication.

[–] Postimo@lemmy.zip 16 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

*it has been become quite normalized

[–] kamen@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

No email would be fine for most people, but then there would be the small number of folks who will cry all hell when they forget their passwords and/or secret questions and can't get in...

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 4 points 14 hours ago

It was more or less the default many moons ago, then just a username became more common, now it is back to email or some third party login