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2018-12-29 07:42 69118962 Anonymous Visible password fields (Screenshot_2018-12-29 Amazon Sign In.png 292x338 15kB)
These seem to have become more common over the past few years. Are normalfriends really too braindead to type in a password without seeing it?

0 min later 69118972 Anonymous
>>69118962 Anon, I don't think that's jeff's password but keep trying

3 min later 69119017 Anonymous
>>69118962 On a phone, it can be difficult to enter your password if it doesn't at least show the last character typed. It's just another example of dumbing down interfaces for the least common denominator.

5 min later 69119051 Anonymous
It doesn't even make sense to obfuscate it like that. If people are nearby and looking at your screen, you've got bigger issues.

7 min later 69119079 Anonymous
>>69118962 It's not even good obfuscation, you can literally just change a single html attribute and it's visible.

14 min later 69119176 Anonymous
>>69119017 It's a thing on desktop versions of sites too.

47 min later 69119648 Anonymous
I am one of those people, but my WPM is over 100 and I'm a touch typer. I just need visual confirmation to orient myself when I haven't typed in a while. Usually when entering my computer's password right as I wake up. PIA, but usually get it the second try.

48 min later 69119663 Anonymous
>>69119176 As he said, least common denominator. Same with all the push for touch-centric UI garbage that's hyper-slow to navigate, has animations out the ass, kill your ram and your cpu just by loading the web page, etc.

49 min later 69119682 Anonymous
>>69119176 >It's a thing on desktop versions of sites too. responsive design.

57 min later 69119792 Anonymous
you faggots would whine about your own shadows if you could how many of you have people looking over your shoulders while typing your password?

1 hours later 69120055 Anonymous (1293596562660.jpg 446x400 83kB)
>>69118962 >He looks at his keyboard while typing >>69119648

1 hours later 69120298 Anonymous
>>69118962 Once you talk to people in the early 30s and older you'll realize that they just really don't see the significance in security. Tied with a lack of care they hardly remember 2-3 6-8 character passwords. They get easily confused .

1 hours later 69120330 Anonymous
>>69120055 I didn't say that you dunce, I said I need visual confirmation of the password in order to know if my positioning is accurate. If I fail it the first time I change my posture or move my keyboard.

1 hours later 69120335 Anonymous
>>69119017 >It's just another example of dumbing down interfaces for the least common denominator This. Tbh passwords are outdated and security keys are the future.

1 hours later 69120355 Anonymous
>>69120298 >they just really don't see the significance in security because there is none, 90% of "security" it is just a meme

1 hours later 69120372 Anonymous
>>69118962 I always thought this was really strange on Amazon too. I can somewhat understand why the option would be there but why the fuck is it the default?

1 hours later 69120397 Anonymous
>>69120355 Get an Amazon account is tied to your CC. You should care very much so.

1 hours later 69120421 Anonymous
>i forgot my password this should be the main button. just text me a temporary code that allows me access to my account, i never remember the password anyway

1 hours later 69120429 Anonymous
>>69120397 You're not liable for fraudulent purchases.

1 hours later 69120432 Anonymous
>>69120397 >oh no someone can order things and have it sent to my house!!! You need to reenter the credit card information to add a new shipping address.

1 hours later 69120485 Anonymous (Bildschirmfoto vom 2018-12-29 21-30-49.png 757x555 32kB)
>>69118962 Not in germany. >>69120432 I guess he meant someone can empty you bank account while sending you hundreds of little raspberry pis.

1 hours later 69120516 Anonymous
>>69120485 >credit card You can just call the bank and issue a chargeback. If you're dumb enough to still be using a debit card better hope it has fraud protection.

1 hours later 69120517 Anonymous
I don't mind since I use a password manager and it think it's like a 100 characters long. No normie will be able to get into my amazon account

2 hours later 69120586 Anonymous
>>69120330 That's why it's important for us to see what we type on the screen. Brainlets like OP have to look at the keyboard to see what they type and thus don't mind that obscured password fields.

2 hours later 69120594 Anonymous
>>69120516 Germanguy here, I didn't even know that debit and credit cards existed and had to google that. Seems like I am using a debit card my whole life but actually now I wanna know why it is better to use/have a credit card? I know I know this derails the thread but I am pretty fucking interested now.

2 hours later 69120672 Anonymous
>>69120594 Many debit cards don't have fraud protection and therefore act like cash. If it's stolen (either physically or details leaked/captured) and used you have little to no chance of reversing the transaction as the money leaves your account right away. With a credit card you have a billing cycle of usually 30 days and within each billing cycle you can dispute fraudulent charges and have them reversed since no money leaves your account until you pay the monthly statement.

2 hours later 69120674 Anonymous
>>69120594 In most countries a debit card is better than a credit card because you're spending your own money, instead of bank credit. The only advantage of credit cards is that they are valid in all countries and debit cards tend to only work in the regions they were issued. So unless you travel abroad, debit is better than credit. Unless you're an American. Americans have a 'credit score' rating, aka a 'good goy rank' where unless you use your credit card a lot you'll have a low credit score and won't be able to enter leases or mortgages if you want a home.

2 hours later 69120697 Anonymous (97214_apple-iphone-keyboard.jpg 375x400 35kB)
>>69118962

2 hours later 69120701 Anonymous
>>69120672 >>69120516 You Americans are fucked up. You do realize that first world countries have full fraud protection for debit cards, right? If American debit cards don't have it, it's because the bankers want you to become indebted to them and they entice you to use credit cards.

2 hours later 69120720 Anonymous
>>69120672 >>69120674 thank you both. Seems like I learned something today.

2 hours later 69120728 Anonymous
>>69120586 >not touch-typing so well you don't need any visual feedback

2 hours later 69121086 Anonymous
>>69118962 no one really looks unless you are buying shit at starbucks and there is almost always a hide button. users dont like that feature cause they cant see what they fucking type. design flaw IMO

2 hours later 69121096 Anonymous
>>69120701 >>69120674 credit cards literally give you free money unless you are an idiot and build up debt with them. some can be set up to directly draw from checking too

2 hours later 69121160 Anonymous
>>69118962 who the fuck cares? Do you really have niggers looking over your shoulder as you type your password in or chinks recording your screen? Are you braindead?

3 hours later 69121337 Anonymous
>>69119017 Lowest* common denominator you dumb fuck Don't use smart people words if you're smart'nt

3 hours later 69121494 Anonymous
>>69118962 Mate. No one want's to steal your credit card with $3.50 left on it.

3 hours later 69121515 Anonymous
>>69121096 This. Non american here. >thousands on credit cards >0% for 27 months >earn money on muh money through investment >pay credit back in full at end of 0% term or balance transfer it Now I just need ETH to go back up to $600 so I'm not bankrupt.

3 hours later 69121883 Anonymous
>>69118962 Phoneturds have almost no way to know if they typed in the right symbol because there's no depth to on screen keyboards.

4 hours later 69121941 Anonymous
>>69121515 This will definitely happen anon, there's no one that has ever lost money on crypto.

4 hours later 69121947 Anonymous (blackberry-key2-black-keyboard-in-hand.jpg 1600x1200 257kB)
>>69121883

4 hours later 69122059 Anonymous
>>69121947 That barely helps. Typing on these blackberry phones isn't much nicer than typing on the onscreen keybord, if at all. Have you ever tried it personally?

4 hours later 69122087 Anonymous
>>69122059 I have one and I can type entire paragraphs without looking down at my phone which helps a lot when responding to a text while walking.

4 hours later 69122103 Anonymous
>>69122087 Weird. I tried one for almost two weeks and it didn't do it for me at all.

4 hours later 69122190 Anonymous
>>69119176 Sites generally start running the same layout on both types once Phones got past 720p resolution. Like order of things or layout might be different to unclutter, but its still the same webpage with the same scripts for all the same boxes. This isn't early 2000s anymore kiddo. >>69120594 Most of the Eurozone economy has it shit together So ramparant fraud isn't such a thing. On top of that, a lot of fraud protection is legally required regardless of medium. Americans are essentially in the situation where they NEED the Credit cards to provide the security, because of a combination of rampant fraud and no rights. And its sad. >>69120674 >and debit cards tend to only work in the regions they were issued. Which is what... The entire of the World that supports VISA? I can't think of a national bank that has rolled out a Debit card without a international provider outside of that country. VISA, Mastercard and a whole bunch of different providers are the norm.

4 hours later 69122196 Anonymous
WHenY00HaVE2*seUPPPER&lowerAND^&$!* $"(noFUCKcanTYPEthemProp@ blind otherwise. Its stoopid fuckin 'password strength' BS roolz that stops people either remembering or allowing them to type blind. And you try upper lower mixed numbers and fucky symbols BS on a fuckin 3" phone in the rain, get fucked. If they would just allow (and even encourage) phrases/sentences instead, but, no

4 hours later 69122228 Anonymous
>>69122190 I've never heard of a single working visa debit card anywhere in the world. Moreover, debit cards issued by financial institutions are never on either visa nor mastercard, and often they won't provide that option either.

4 hours later 69122265 Anonymous
>>69122228 Not him but my debit card has the Visa logo on it and it worked pretty much everywhere I tried. Not that I live a jetset lifestyle but I've been to a few countries and didn't have any problems with it

4 hours later 69122272 Anonymous
I just want to add that I hate this function where you can see the last typed letter for like 3 seconds before it becomes a *-symbol.

4 hours later 69122307 Anonymous
>>69122228 >wut Bong is full of them - it actually used to be the banks issued their own cards, with maybe a common payment system, but now Bong at least seems to be almost entirely 'Visa Debit' etc.

4 hours later 69122321 Anonymous
>>69122272 Only iPhones have this problem. On Android it is off by default.

4 hours later 69122385 Anonymous
>>69118962 It came in with phoneposting. Phoneposter racewar when?

7 hours later 69124039 Anonymous
>>69120594 The problem with debit is the money is directly taken from your chequing account which means your bank has to dsipute it. If a visa or MasterCard has fraudulent purchases you go through them. Visa and MasterCard are just easier to deal with for fradualent activity

7 hours later 69124058 Anonymous
>>69119017 Wrong

9 hours later 69125197 Anonymous
>>69120485 saved

9 hours later 69125208 Anonymous
>>69122196 underrated

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