Why is entering an email address less work than entering a URL? ... • Aaron Parecki

apenwarr https://twitter.com/apenwarr • Apr 10
If login were automated like credit card forms, it would fail about 50% of the time and need me to enter a page full of unnecessary personal information by hand. That’s not a good model.

Why not let me enter an email address instead? That has a domain in it.

Why is entering an email address less work than entering a URL? What I'm saying is browsers could have an "account chooser" UI to save a URL and enter it in the login field.

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Fri, Apr 10, 2020 8:39am -07:00

3 replies
Have you written a response to this? Let me know the URL:
- Jeffrey Yasskin twitter.com/jyasskin
  
  And we're about to have to integrate login into browsers to make anti-tracking efforts like ITP actually work. I don't know exactly what that'll look like (or what URL to point you to yet...) but please keep your eyes open and help make sure we don't screw it up.
  
  Fri, Apr 10, 2020 5:11pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- Aaron Parecki twitter.com/aaronpk
  
  That hasn't been true for years. Browser vendors are pushing new features that they want or think will be helpful. Here are some examples: github.com/WebKit/explain… See also all the Twitter threads of people getting angry that Chrome implements something before it's standardized.
  
  Fri, Apr 10, 2020 4:16pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)
- apenwarr twitter.com/apenwarr
  
  That creates a chicken-and-egg problem: browsers won't adopt it unless it's popular. It won't be popular unless browsers adopt it. Chicken-and-egg problems create usually-insurmountable barriers to adoption.
  
  Fri, Apr 10, 2020 4:12pm +00:00 (via brid-gy.appspot.com)

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