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Comment by aboodman | Hacker News Reader

Please stop doing this:

https://i.imgur.com/2WeVGxK.png

It's so frustrating. Early in your product lifecycle it should be painfully easy to get started and you shouldn't be worrying about this kind of security.

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Good point, we'll fix this in the next update.

p.s. fan of the work on replicache and of course chrome

relevant: https://xkcd.com/936/

Please keep doing this.

I don't see any issue with this? It makes sense to keep the accounts secure, and very few people will be coming up with passwords by hand; they'll be using the auto-generated ones from their browser (or from their 3rd-party password manager for the more HN-y types).

Very few?! I really doubt that. Most people use their pet password everywhere.

I typically let Chrome suggest one, but that menu item wasn't available here (because I was not inside Chrome, obviously).

These restrictions do not add security in practice. People just add `!` or `1` as necessary to make the thing shut up. All it does is make signup harder.

I almost gave up after trying this like three times but as an ex browser developer really wanted to see what ya'll were up to. I think it's an interesting concept. But I bet you will lose tons of trials here.

In fact it should just be google auth (not sure if I missed the option to do that).

Google auth is good to have, but local auth should always be an option. It's not really good practice to exclude those who don't wish to cede control of their online life to Google.

And if your Google account is ever blocked because you triggered an AI security flag, you will lose access to all the sites where you signed in with Google.

I find the need to self-moderate at least as scary. Heaven forbid you say what you think with just morality in mind. Who even knows what is or isn't allowed in 2024?

That never seemed hard to figure out.

I have never in my life thought “Gee, I might be banned for saying that,” but maybe I’m just a sheeple.

My reddit comment in /r/uk resulted in my 12 year account banned because it didn't comply with a UK mods viewpoint.

The comment may of been slightly off-the-cuff but for sure didn't incite "violence". This resulted in getting banned by Reddit admins and I've never been back on Reddit since.

After the shock wears off you realise that you really you don't miss reddit.

Surely you can open a mainstream news website and find obvious nonsens or disagreable material. You dont have want to talk about it but it is the idea you are not suppose to that can already change you.

I now think you've said lots of ban worthy things (depending on who you ask ofc) the joy of Google is that they wont explain where or what.

Ahh, i see you wrote you would kill for something. Not really a community friendly expression now is it?

We are all one freudian auto spellings correction from the abys.

Reminds me of google when "can i have block children" triggered a did you mean "can i have Black children?"

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