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What is your favourite login method?
3 points by rgaino 1230 days ago
Social? Apple/Google? Phone+SMS? Email magic link? Good old usr/pwd?
3 comments

None.

There are way too many tools that now rely on a forced login/auth/id as a control/lock-in/pseudo-secure mechanism whereas it is not required by the actual task at hand.

For some tasks, it is needed. For a huge amount of others and most of them, it's an invasive market/control/payment tool.

User/password.

Incidentally, there is a way to conduct a poll in HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newpoll

Thanks but "Sorry, you need over 200 karma to create a poll."
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