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Comment by quadrifoliate

User rant: I hate where this new Internet is going. Instead of having a username and a few secure hardware tokens that I can use to log in from any internet cafe [1] on the planet, I am now subjected to a barrage of suspicious "Is this you? Is this really you? Are you sure this is you?" inquiries every time I so much as take a trip out of state. It seems like the next step will be a requirement to show a Government ID every time I access the Internet from outside my house.

"Passwords are insecure" is not a good enough rebuttal to this, honestly. We have far more robust authentication methods available; and it's possible to make them standard and avoid this "Remember me" nonsense. Instead, we get all of it for what seems to be the sole purpose of even more user tracking.

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[1] Remember those? A refresher if you don't: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWssRVJgPqc

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