A lot of services these days support multiple forms of authentication. Did you sign up with a separate password? Did you use Google or Facebook auth? Is this a corporate account where auth is via their SSO? They don't even know whether they should ask for your password until they know who you are.
this post was submitted on 02 Oct 2023
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That’s the best explanation I heard so far.
As someone who just built one of these, that is the exact reason we did it.
It would be cool if users just remembered which service they used to sign in, but they often don't, so this is the next best thing. Tell us your email, we look up which service you used, then send you to that service to complete the login.
Pro tip: leave the password field on the site but make it invisible. So when I am using my password manager to fill in the username, the password field will be filled out too. And I don't have to use my password manager twice for one login.
1Password actually is really good at handling these two step login screens, for me it always autofills the password correctly
So far Bitwarden has been doing great for me, too.
Are you using the auto-fill on page load? I heard that is a security risk.
For me I have to <> <>, <> <>
To login to these forms, and on mobile this means unlocking my vault twice (which happens to be a bit annoying bc my Face ID is broken)
I do not use auto fill, no.
But at least you should be able to unlock your vault once and then keep it unlocked for a few minutes so you don't need to double up. Maybe try the browser extension that you can get for Firefox (both desktop and mobile).
1Password is great, I just switched to it recently after the LastPass kerfuffle and the UX is lightyears better
This is the answer. I've had to build it a handful of times and it always feels bad.
So exposing information about users (how they log in) without authenticating that you're someone authorized to have that information?
The better way to do this is to just have "log in with Google" or whatever buttons.
As I mentioned elsewhere in the thread, most users don't remember what they used when they created the account, particularly if it's something they don't use often. It's also cumbersome to have to input that, especially if you bundle that with an optional password field.
That's not to say you don't have a point about leaking that information. Personally I'd be more concerned about leaking the fact that I have an account at all. If this is a concern for you, you are likely not inclined to use the likes of Google Auth or Facebook Auth. You'd be better off using a unique password for each service, store them in some sort of password manager, and rely on the default behavior treating "local account" and "no account" the same in terms of showing you the password field.
Maybe that's not your preferred behavior, but it does allow you to keep that data private while simultaneously being easier to use for the SSO users.
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Similarly, platforms that default to a massive CREATE AN ACCOUNT box centered on the screen and make you play Where's Fucking Waldo trying to find the size 8 "Log In" hyperlink.
Because new signups are more valuable than existing users.
That, plus the majority of users seeing the login screen are probably new. At least, unless it's one of those annoying sites that makes you log in every single time.
Oh how much I hate it. I want to log in once in my lifetime. You can log me out when I die.
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I wouldn't mind the separate pages for username / password if the "remember me on this device" checkbox weren't fucking useless 99% of the time.
Oh yes.
That probably is not covered by the functional cookies that’s the maximum which I allow any site.
Microsoft:
Stay signed in?
This will decrease how many login prompts you see.
⬜ Remember on this device
| No | Yes |
|---|
Why isn’t the checkbox implied if I press Yes?
Is it ever not useless?
I believe it is so they can support various different SSO providers.
Like, oh you're trying to log in as Peter, well you're a member of the Initech domain, which uses the Initrode SSO, so let me redirect you to their SSO login page.
Oh, you're Bill, you just use a password you pleb. Here's your text box.
Initech
You wouldn’t happen to have 8 bosses, would you?
Asking questions is a sign of upper management.
Nowadays it is possible to set up many services in such a way that you authenticate in a different way from a password, for example with an app on a smartphone. Such services can't ask you for your password until you have told them what account you want to log into because it might turn out you have to give them something other than a password.
I think it's due to single sign on (SSO) or other means of authentication (OAUTH), which is convenient when used.
But I agree, annoying if you use username and password.
Federation. Your email address could either be local creds, or federated with google, Microsoft, Facebook, Apple, etc.
When you submit your email address, it determines how you will be authenticating when you submit it.
That could be done after the user enters both the email/username and password
Edit: sorry, I think I misunderstood what you said, but if someone is using something like "sign in with google", we've had separate buttons for that for ages.
I think it might solve the problem that people often don't remember if they created their account using SSO or with an email/password combo. So the site looks up your email to see what login method you use in order to redirect you to the proper prompt.
Yes, with a limited set of federations you can have the user make that choice beforehand. But sometimes the options are changing all the time and/or you don't want to announce all the services you're federating with, or it wouldn't make sense anyway.
yeah i noticed this as well. extremely annoying, i'm sick of UX getting shittier and more annoying for the vague promise of 'security'. having to get my phone out to login to youtube is a fucking downgrade, plain and simple.
It started as defense against credential stuffing and a speed bump against brute force attacks. Not only is it additional loads for a bot to do, but passive captcha can be put between the steps. Now I think its becoming fashionable.
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I cant answer about the separation of username/password, but unnecessary animations seem to be a product of the ensh*ttification of the web
There's two reasons I can think of. One is direct resistance by services to password auto-fill during the aughts (it was new and scary) and separating the account field and pass field defeated auto-fill detection at the time. Amazon separated account and password around then and it's been that way since.
The other is your secret picture, a preventative measure against phishing attacks used by banks and other commercial interests, When you create an account, you're asked to select a stock image and a phrase that the site shows you when asking for your password. That way you know it's really the bank's site and not a phishing site.
Right now I think I have only one web account that uses such a protection.
It still gets filled in by all browsers I have. From usability point of view it’s less chance someone press enter after putting in their login name thus leaving the password field empty and getting refused. This will often lead to a disruption friction of their workflow (don’t know the proper English word)
The JS to detect an empty password field and only enabling Enter onchange is way simpler than the code for two separate pages. I actually implemented the former once.
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Google does this best. It hides the password field but it can still be picked up by bitwarden and other password managers so will already be auto-filled when you press next.
I still hate that form of login though.
Probably a security measure to slow down brute forcing
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