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[Pierpaolo D'Aimmo]

I had issues with FB authentication when trying to login from a mobile.
Last time it happened it was with Grooveshark. I created the account with a
FB login from a desktop, then tried to login on mobile and it was
impossible, since their mobile interface doesn't use FB login.

Pierpaolo D'Aimmo
+1 201 892 1270
daimmo at gmail.com


On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 11:02 AM, Chris Snyder <chsnyder at gmail.com> wrote:

> More and more people just use "I forgot my password", and deal with it
>>> that way. Either you've exchanged the password for a security question, or
>>> just access to a user's email.
>>>
>>
>>
> For casual access, it's okay to just skip the password field altogether
> and use a token sent to email or sms as an authenticator. If you're
> building something that a user is only going to log into once a month or
> less, it may be less annoying to them to do an email roundtrip then it is
> to create yet another password.
>
> At the other end of the spectrum, I preach the gospel of the password
> manager to anyone who will listen.
>
> On a side note, I get annoyed at services that want to use Facebook or
> some other social network to log me in, because I don't necessarily want my
> account on one site to be linked to my account on another. As a user in
> that situation, I have to think about a whole raft of other issues: is this
> *really* Facebook's form, does the site get access to my timeline and
> friends, does Facebook have access to my account on this site, will my
> Facebook password still be on the clipboard after I log in, etc.
>
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