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.
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"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.
@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..
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@vkc im not even old fashioned, im literally 18, yet i still prefer regular password auth over this
@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 -
@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 -
@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 -
@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@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 -
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.
As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.
@vkc @404mediaco it's a super annoying trend with websites at the moment.
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@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 @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
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@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.)
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@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
@ElliesSurviving
I'd drive some old clunker (and maintain the thing) if I had to - but I never even had a licence
@vkc -
@ElliesSurviving
I'd drive some old clunker (and maintain the thing) if I had to - but I never even had a licence
@vkc -
@ElliesSurviving
To be fair, it heard her the first time.And then it also rattled off some info about the company that made it. I don't know what it heard to do that. I just know I'm not getting back into that thing.
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"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.
@vkc that does seem very annoying.
If you don't mind me suggesting an alternative... I signed up once and have been using their RSS feed ever since which gives the whole articles, not just headlines. No login required.
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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.
As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.
@vkc @404mediaco magic links come straight from hell.
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@vkc that does seem very annoying.
If you don't mind me suggesting an alternative... I signed up once and have been using their RSS feed ever since which gives the whole articles, not just headlines. No login required.
@dacmot I routinely use RSS but not on every device, frequently enough I come across a link organically and run into these messes!
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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.
As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.
@vkc @juandesant @404mediaco This pattern needs to die. I’m starting to see this more and more with new apps. I get they’re hoping to avoid disposable email addresses, but I’m certain this will have the opposite effect of what they’re hoping for.
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@dacmot I routinely use RSS but not on every device, frequently enough I come across a link organically and run into these messes!
@vkc definitely sub-optimal.
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@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.
I have been doing the same thing for years, and I found Linkedin to be one of the big offenders.
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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.
As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.
@vkc Yeah, I want to log in and read this now, not whenever the email with the magic link percolates through the intertubes.
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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.
As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.
@vkc @404mediaco 100% agreed. As someone who is not signed in to email on every device, having to click a magic link on my phone and then send the link to my PC, these sign in prompts are a gigantic pain in the ass.
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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.
As someone who deletes all cookies daily across a half dozen devices, it adds a bunch of friction.
@vkc @404mediaco "Magic Links" are the dumbest "security" I can think of.
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