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I love password based login
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Also This strange trend to split username and password on to two separate pages, or only showing the password field after confirming the username
Not that strange. Different users may belong to different groups which may have different authentication backends. The associated authentication method is brought up once a username has been provided.
if your choice of api route directly affects your auth flow something is very wrong.
I don't like it when I need to sign in twice for single sign-on. The email/username then tells the system if they need to be directed to another sign in page. Like Google or Microsoft. This then allows you access without having to give them your password.
You can do that as part of an OAuth workflow. You don’t need to have them on separate pages for that to happen.
Yes, but, it also lets them slurp up email addresses. Routing users is legit tho.
This reminds me of another annoying one, often related to these routing pages.
I type in my email, then it routes to "create an account". Or WORSE it mimmicks the thing the OP is complaining aboit and says it sent me a verification email, then prompts me to make an account.
Like fucker, I have a dozen+ email addresses, if my email isn't an account, just tell me so I can try a different one.
Bonus stage 0: special login URL decided to crap out, and going back to any point in history automatically redirects to the error page that you can't use to log in, so you need to keep going back and trying to copy the URL before it redirects becausw Firefox interprets pressing "stop" as "do whatever you want idk"
Fucking aws...
You forgot step 2.5: incorrectly identifying stoplights 6 times in a row.
Oh fuck, the stone piles -thing is the worst of those. Tiny images, badly generated so you can't see shit, multiple rounds that have six or so images each round, you can't make a single mistake, and you get to know did you make any mistakes only after completing all of the rounds. It's straight up abuse
Once I had to try over five times and still kept failing, so I just gave up. I guess I'm not a human anymore
I actually like seeing those, when I have time, because I assume they are training ai with it and using my selections as tagging data. Pick all the cars: nope, everything but cars.
I'm probably the reason you fail, because I'm poisoning the data and reducing the confidence scores for the tags.
I remember when doing those captcha felt like improving computer science and that was a positive thing, teaching computers to see. How quickly we've fallen.
You're probably getting flagged. You have to be just slightly off. Miss one or two by a square or two. And remember that image so you repeat it every time.
I do that shit too, fuck the AI training. The Terminators will stopnat every set of stairs thinking its a stop light
I remember doing this with the text based captchas a decade or so ago. For a while it was pretty obvious which word was the control word and which was the one you were being data mined for, so it was always fun to throw a swear or something in there for the lulz to poison the data.
It's a whole mini game sometimes. I hate them with every fiber of my being.
It took me years to learn that you're supposed to do them very slowly. Otherwise it will keep bothering you to fill out more. Pretend you are 80 years old and you're good to go on your first try.
At least identifying shit is easy, I have seen some wild captchas. Roblox for a while had some really crazy ones where its like "Identify the shape that most closest matches the answer to this math problem", and the shapes are all highly stylized numbers on a field that is basically a colorblind test.
Math? I'd drop the entire service for that. We enslave rocks and teach them math and language to avoid more math.
I generally get bored and forget what I’m doing so the page refreshes.
This is because of Enterprise Single Sign On. You can try this for yourself by going to https://gmail.com/ and enter the email of a public person at a large org, for example the CEO of Doordash (
tony@doordash.com). After you enter the email, you get sent to Doordash's employee portal to authenticate. Based on the email you provide, Gmail has to figure out if you need to provide a password to gmail itself or if the email authenticates another way.It's not like you can't add a "Log in with your company's SSO" button to the form. That works just fine and at least Microsoft does something like that.
Not sure I'd take design inspiration from Microsoft of all places. Also https://login.live.com/ has the same workflow email -> continue -> password. Not sure where you're seeing Log in with SSO option.
I see the Login with SSO option all over the place. Of course, that assumes the users actually understand what that means, and they know whether or not they need to click it.
And remembers which one they choose when registering.
Zoom has it, for example.
My company uses Entra ID (or whatever they've renamed it to this week) and it's a pretty common sight in our login flow. I think our SharePoint instance does it so it should be something MS does.
Of course it all depends on w how the company configures it.
Ok, I think I get what you're saying. You mean have a different form input without the password, like how it's done here: https://eu.app.orcasecurity.io/login? I guess that's one way to do it, but it's not really intuitive from a user perspective, since the first thing you see is a password field, and then think you don't have access because you don't have a password. This one comes to mind because I have had to tell people to click the tab for the email only field, not email and password.
I also often see implementations where there's a first step where you have to select how to log in. It's an extra click but very clear (and usually one of the options is some form of SSO where that one click fully logs you in if you already have a session open).
No it doesn't work fine, because it confuses people, and provides the potential for working-around SSO.
That ones because users like choice. They need to look up who you are to know how you've chosen to authenticate. At least, that's how it started. Some could be doing it because the big kids are, but that's why the big kids do.
And they support choice because businesses want to use their login infrastructure and refuse to share. So you enter "user@businessOrUniversity.com.edu" and it forwards you to your institutional login.
1Password handles this gracefully
That's there to support routing to an identity provider for SAML2 SSO.
Came here to say that! For the love of God, stop with this nonsense!