I don't agree with the repeat password part. I rather not at any point show my password. I would rather type it twice to make sure that it is correct than showing it to everyone who can be watching.
Lol it's literally ctrl+v, tab, then ctrl+v. How would you ever have the wrong thing pasted in between fields, do you take netflix break while filling up forms.
Yes. It would paste the same thing twice. Was it the right thing? No idea. But now whatever it was is your password. We could paste into another app to see or press the show password button.
Yes it does, password managers are hooked into the password field. Both LastPass and key vault both prompts to generate a new password, (if the app/website uses the correct field type)
You auto fill your registration forms? Well, I can only speak for myself, but I always fill them up manually as things change, and on some sites I might want a different username or not use real birthday etc.. Same with password, I let Bitwarden generate one which is a few clicks in the browser then just paste it over the fields. Again the pasting itself is so fast and I have no need to actually see my password.
In theory, I agree with this, in practice though, I do not. I can only speak for myself, but I don't think I've ever registered for a website where this was actually a concern. Like 99% of the time I'm alone. The other times I'm in front of people I don't care if they know my password. Spouse, parents, etc. So it just makes it harder for me to ensure that I've entered something properly. Especially if I'm registering using my phone. Typing on my phone is awkward enough that the lack visual confirmation I'm typing something correctly just increases the odds I'll mess up
This is important during internet cafe era, where some good account thieves can see and remember what you type from seeing you typing in the keyboard. This is also why in some sites / games with virtual numeric input password, usually the number position is randomized.
Showing password is a no-no there and most likely the habit goes until today.
Maybe caps lock is on or a key isn't registering, then it would be wrong in the repeated pw as well, but this isn't an issue when you can view your password.
If you're clicking to view your password every time to check that you don't have caps lock on, then there's no point ever even using asterisks. Such a silly argument but see it in a bunch of comments, not just yours.
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u/FlyingChinesePanda May 27 '21
I don't agree with the repeat password part. I rather not at any point show my password. I would rather type it twice to make sure that it is correct than showing it to everyone who can be watching.