Web Devs: is there a phone-number-less AUTH that still prevents bots?
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Web Devs: is there a phone-number-less AUTH that still prevents bots?
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  • I make websites
  • If someone is banned twice (two accounts) I want it to take them more than 5min and a VPN to make a 3rd account
  • I’m okay with extreme solutions, like requiring everyone to have a Yubikey-or-similar physical key
  • I really hate the trend of relying on a phone number or Google capcha as a not-a-bot detection. Both have tons of problems
  • but spam (automated account creation) is a real problem

What kind of auth should I use for my websites?

@steersman2484@sh.itjust.works
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Create your input for email and password with the id / name “email” and “password” and hide them with CSS. Then you create the real inputs with an id like “zipcode” or some other thing that would throw bots off.

Password managers hate this trick

@ReveredOxygen@sh.itjust.works
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It’s not as bad if it’s only on sign up, because you’re normally not autofilling there. But it’s still bad for accessibility

Zagorath
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It’s definitely not as bad for sign up, but it’s still a problem because usually after hitting “submit”, the password manager will detect what you just did and pop up something like “want me to save that?”

@CameronDev@programming.dev
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I suspect screen readers and a11y tools hate this as well.

@shortwavesurfer@monero.town
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Trust me, as a screen reader user, things like this make our lives absolute hell.

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