I see this more and more lately: go to log in to some site, and they only show the username field. Enter username, click Submit, then a password field appears. Enter password, click Submit again, and then we’re logged in.

This makes using a password manager super annoying, because I have to trigger the autofill twice.

Is there some security-related reason more sites are doing this? Is it an anti-bot thing? I’m just really curious, because it seems so pointless on its face, but it seems to be spreading.

  • body_by_make@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    As the other person said, this is a classic SSO pattern. Your email or sometimes just organization ID that you enter in that field will send you off somewhere else to sign in, then you don’t get the password field at all.