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What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?
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Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?
#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I feel the same way you do. Although I'm just a sample size of one, but I've had zero success in convincing any friends or relatives to use a password manager. They either don't trust password managers, or don't want to change their current workflow. They don't seem to care that using a password manger is probably a better solution then using the same password everywhere or writing all their passwords in a little bla…
> Although I'm just a sample size of one, but I've had zero success in convincing any friends or relatives to use a password manager. > They either don't trust password managers, or don't want to change their current workflow. I used to memorize all my passwords but now I just use my browser's 'remember password' feature. In both Firefox & Chrome it syncs between devices, and is usable on both the desktop and mobile…
Firefox has a separate password manager app - Lockwise[1].
Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?
#43Hate it.... I do not want a site to have access to my information before I even open an account... even if that's just some anonymized ID created for the task.
Ironically, you must sign in with a social media account( facebook / twitter ) or google / github to even use this site..... Single Sign On crap just leads to your whole life getting hacked if something happens. if I cannot setup an account with a unique email address and password, I will leave.
Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?
#44I find it to be intrusive and disturbing. Medium.com does this and I've always hated it. Mediums usage of it actually caused me to switch, on my work computer, from always being logged into Google, to never being logged into my Google account. Now if I have to use one of my companies apps that requires a Google login, I do it incognito. At home, I never browse while logged in, so I didn't ever notice it that much. Us…
God, Medium has the worst login experience of any site I use. What makes them think they are too clever to be usable with a password manager like the rest of the damn internet? I usually just reopen the article in an incognito tab instead of going through their stupid “send me an email!” bullshit login.
For every user like you who is using unique, securely generated passwords in a manager, there’s 10,000 people who are using the same, easily compromised password on every website they’re registered on.
You’re not the target audience for these features - not only are you the tiny minority, but no matter what system they give you, you’ll find a way to interact with it safely, so for that interaction you simply don’t matter.
And choosing to do this kind of login pushes blame for authentication issues away from that company, and onto the federated provider, who presumably has legions of security researchers to make sure they’re doing things safely.
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#45This button allows Google to know the fact that I'm currently on this specific website. If more and more websites implement this button, Google will have access to my complete browsing history!
IMO a website must ask for a permission before displaying this button.
Facebook also has a similar button ("Continue with {my_name}") that use the same iframe method.
Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
God, Medium has the worst login experience of any site I use. What makes them think they are too clever to be usable with a password manager like the rest of the damn internet? I usually just reopen the article in an incognito tab instead of going through their stupid “send me an email!” bullshit login.
For every user like you who is using unique, securely generated passwords in a manager, there’s 10,000 people who are using the same, easily compromised password on every website they’re registered on. You’re not the target audience for these features - not only are you the tiny minority, but no matter what system they give you, you’ll find a way to interact with it safely, so for that interaction you simply don’t ma…
Huh, new idea, Google already prompts me on my phone when I log in to Google on a new device, why isn't there a service where instead of having to open my email and find that darned Medium email, it can push a question to one of my devices (also on PC) and I can just press "Yes that was me, let me in"? It can be some third party so I don't need a different software for each site..
Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?
#47This button allows Google to know the fact that I'm currently on this specific website. If more and more websites implement this button, Google will have access to my complete browsing history! IMO a website must ask for a permission before displaying this button. Facebook also has a similar button ("Continue with {my_name}") that use the same iframe method.
Well FB (and Twitter) already have "Like this page" or "Tweet about this" embeds, and those allow them to track you across the Internet (or at least on sites with those buttons).
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#48My prediction: People on HN will hate it, the general public loves it.
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#49It’s insecure too :)
Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
For every user like you who is using unique, securely generated passwords in a manager, there’s 10,000 people who are using the same, easily compromised password on every website they’re registered on. You’re not the target audience for these features - not only are you the tiny minority, but no matter what system they give you, you’ll find a way to interact with it safely, so for that interaction you simply don’t ma…
Huh, new idea, Google already prompts me on my phone when I log in to Google on a new device, why isn't there a service where instead of having to open my email and find that darned Medium email, it can push a question to one of my devices (also on PC) and I can just press "Yes that was me, let me in"? It can be some third party so I don't need a different software for each site..
Isn’t that basically logging in with Google? I mean Google isn’t asking you if you logged into Medium with a push but by the time you’re doing that Google already knows it’s you and pushed you a notification to log you in initially.