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alternatives to passwords are just excuses to harvest info
Not if it comes to hardware-based passkeys I would argue
true, but i would also argue that's a much less utilised alternative. most people don't even know what that is even though it's a great redundancy.
they don't need to know what's happening when a panel pops up on their phone, says touch the fingerprint scanner, and enrolls a passkey. it's on the companies
It is quite normal to ask for an email address at registration even when using password based authentication.
*it has been become quite normalized
No email would be fine for most people, but then there would be the small number of folks who will cry all hell when they forget their passwords and/or secret questions and can't get in...
It was more or less the default many moons ago, then just a username became more common, now it is back to email or some third party login