I love you @404mediaco, but I really wish I had a password auth instead of the whole "email you a magic link" thing every time I sign in.

Veronica Explains

"But Veronica! Why don't you just click the link?"

Because I'm often not signed in to that email provider! "Hang on, let me dig out my phone" is friction, which for some folks might be welcome! But I'm ancient and prefer the old fashioned password prompt, which can sync across all devices without cookies.

Bruce Elrick

@vkc @404mediaco
I am registered with them but I follow them using RSS and I get hit with the annoying sign-in-send-link far too often. But I don't clean cookies from sights like this so I don't know why they can't just leave a cookie and know who I am.

Bearmine

@vkc this drives me up the wall too. I have a password manager that syncs across all my devices that auto fills in a few clicks. I don’t want to have to go to my email, just let me use a strong password.

[384992] Ellie Winters :v_trans: :verifieddemigirl: :v_plu:

@vkc im not even old fashioned, im literally 18, yet i still prefer regular password auth over this

Verge

@vkc oh i hate these things!! the less dependent on my email the better tbh

Veronica Explains

@bearmine especially for something less-than-critical like my login to a news outlet. It's one thing for a financial institution to do frequent confirmations, but stuff like this just prevents me from clicking links.

SlightlyCyberpunk

@vkc @404mediaco They're REALLY big on emails over there. The CEO or whatever has me blocked on here because I once told him that I prefer to not give my email address out to every random website...

Ethan Blanton

@vkc Even still, you have to wait for the link! Which is _usually_ there almost immediately, but sometimes ... you know, it'll get there eventually. Because Email.

Veronica Explains

@james @404mediaco oh I didn't even think of those folks who are using this on their work device and *can't* or *shouldn't* log in to personal email. That was me a couple of years ago!

That's a big barrier! Password auth would be so helpful to those folks!

Veronica Explains

@admin I use a service to generate fake emails for this sort of thing, it's awesome! I can always tell *exactly* who sold my email to folks, or where email leaks came from.

I almost never give out my real email to anyone other than a human I know in the real world.

/dev/urandom

@vkc

i wonder if this is how @404mediaco tries to prevent the possibility of multiple people using the same account

Rob\Viewdata UK

@vkc
Even worse when on phone, and it's running low on RAM, so swapping out to email and clicking through causes the browser to reload the page and start the whole login process again from the beginning..
(no idea if 404 does this, I'm not even signed up there due to needing to sign up!)

Ozzelot :runbsd:

@ElliesSurviving
You can be old fashioned without actually being old... (Any other variant would mean I'm old, and I'm not even pushing 30! Maybe I'm poking 30 gently with a stick, but it's still a stick of respectable length!)
@vkc

[384992] Ellie Winters :v_trans: :verifieddemigirl: :v_plu:

@ozzelot @vkc fair point, i mean in terms of that i guess you could say i am pretty old fashioned when it comes to certain things especially with technology

Ozzelot :runbsd:

@ElliesSurviving
Wanting to control your tech and not having it listen to you at all times is apparently old fashioned now (as noted during a recent interaction with my aunt's new fancy car with some voice controls... next time I'm taking the bus.)
@vkc

Ozzelot :runbsd:

@ElliesSurviving
Apparently saying "hey (car), set the temp to this many degrees" is more convenient than having a knob that you just know from memory where you want it... I disagree with that, but eh, not my car. And never shall it be.

(Not a Tesla btw.)
@vkc

Christof Damian 💙💛

@vkc @404mediaco it's a super annoying trend with websites at the moment.

[384992] Ellie Winters :v_trans: :verifieddemigirl: :v_plu:

@ozzelot @vkc i dont drive and sometimes im quite thankful for that seeing how modern cars are, i dont want everything done electronically via voice commands or a central touchscreen, id prefer buttons, knobs and dials, if a car (or really any technology) can hear me (and it has to in order to do voice commands) without my explicit permission (usually to make a phone call, video call, or a voice message/voicemail, i dont have any other need) thats just a major red flag to me

[384992] Ellie Winters :v_trans: :verifieddemigirl: :v_plu:

@ozzelot @vkc yeah saying the command (and having it hear you incorrectly about 5 times at least) is apparently more convenient than just a turn of a knob

Ozzelot :runbsd:

@ElliesSurviving
I'd drive some old clunker (and maintain the thing) if I had to - but I never even had a licence
@vkc