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What about all these sites now only showing you login input boxes one by one, what’s up with that???

Enter username, click, now enter password is revealed.

Some sites, password manager manages to do both even if only one is shown but usually not.

It’s a common known fact that every person is born with a certain max number of clicks and taps. We all only have so many clicks left in our lives, that’s one less click that I’ll be able to use doing what makes me happy like doom scrolling Twitter. Dammit.




The single username and password fields usually allow the site to determine whether some sort of federated login is in place for your domain.


Thank you to everyone for explaining it. I figured there was a reason but mostly just settled on being annoyed. Human nature and I am very human.


For many it's to support SSO. so if you put in an email ending in `@company.com` and Company signs in to that site with SSO they direct you to the right place.


Aside from SSO, it allows them to check if the username exists before even attempting to login with it




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