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Assuming you are creating an account, UN: Hello PW: World123

My largest issue is that its extremely possible to fat-finger your UN to be Hellow, and its extremely easy to see and fix that mistake.

However since passwords are hidden its hard to see ######## is actually Worls123. Now your new account has essentially a one-time login because you have no idea what your password is. Typing it out again, ensures you catch your mistake




Pasting the password from an authoritative source like a password manager also eliminates that mistake, and works safely whether there's a password confirmation field or not. Even better if your password manager can generate a new password, fill it into all applicable spots on a registration form and save it into its database from a single button press so you have no chance to screw anything up.


I hate hidden passwords, it's stupid.

I'd notice someone shoulder surfing so I'd prefer if they wheren't starred out by default with starring out as an option if I do have people around.


I agree. I wish there was an easy way to say "disable password hiding (always/for this session/while I'm in my current network configuration)."

I never need passwords hidden in my home. I've been in work environments where I know I'm not doing anything where I'd want passwords hidden. I especially don't want passwords hidden on my phone, where it's easy to make a typo.


There's plugins for most (all?) browsers to not hide password fields


What about e.g. sharing a screen during a presentation?


Or cameras you don't know about.


If I have a camera I don't know about in my home then I have bigger issues than a password field on hacker news no?


If you never leave your home then you have much bigger issues than a password field.


You're always leaking more information than you think...


OP isn't talking about password confirmation fields, which are similar to my other comment about email confirmation fields. They are talking about sign-in forms.




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