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GoG made the change a while back and a few other places have started doing the same over the last few years.
It seems the same with services wanting your mobile phone number.
Was there any deeper reason for this or they just playing follow the leader?
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Because many times you realize that your usual username is taken so create a new one, then forget it... it's much easier to keep in mind one email address as a login.
Because otherwise you would be disinclined to give a working e-mail address, or to keep it current.
Fuck I hope GOG doesn't go to email login. I'd have to quit.
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tinyE: Fuck I hope GOG doesn't go to email login. I'd have to quit.
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tinyE: Fuck I hope GOG doesn't go to email login. I'd have to quit.
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Grargar: ?
You're taking tinye all too seriously.
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tinyE: Fuck I hope GOG doesn't go to email login. I'd have to quit.
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Grargar: ?
XD Oh that. I meant the proposal to make people log in through their email accounts, not just entering the address.

I think I was meandering there. :P
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pimpmonkey2382.313: You're taking tinye all too seriously.
Somebody has to do it.
I think tinyE was referring to the 2-Step Verification which many sites are implementing. Some sites such as Humble Bundle bug me to input the security code because I logged from "an unknown browser", when all I did was simply clear my history/cache, Steam did same thing back when I used it.
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Ganni1987: I think tinyE was referring to the 2-Step Verification which many sites are implementing. Some sites such as Humble Bundle bug me to input the security code because I logged from "an unknown browser", when all I did was simply clear my history/cache, Steam did same thing back when I used it.
Yeah, this is especially a problem if you have all your cache/history cleared automatically when the browser shuts down. I have countless of these verification requests/notifications in my email even from gmail bugging me about new sign in to Firefox.
Post edited January 04, 2016 by Matruchus
Whilst I agree with two step authentication, it shouldn't be on just logging in, that's ridiculous. Anyone with half a mind on security or good operation would have internet wiped at browser close? Sure if I change something vital in my account then there should be an email which I then click to confirm. And definitely not that give out your phone number nonsense, already had that with hotmail, I mean who is able to hack that, it doesn't work with their own fecking browser.
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Spectre: GoG made the change a while back and a few other places have started doing the same over the last few years.
It seems the same with services wanting your mobile phone number.
Was there any deeper reason for this or they just playing follow the leader?
For any given example, I don't know what they were thinking, but from a network perspective, there are a few interesting reasons to sign in with email, or request a mobile phone number.

Two-factor authentication is generally held to be a security boon; it's easy for me to hack your email if you use one of the major providers, but it's a totally different task, requiring different technology and knowledge, for me to clone your SIM. Probably if I hack your email, I don't also have your phone number handy, as long as it has been stored safely >.>

Sales always likes to get information like that. Targetted advertisements have a higher hit rate (though still a vanishingly small one) than bulk sends, so advertising costs are reduced.

Follow the leader is persuasive, since that's usually how standards get formalized. As much as we'd like to think we're all precious snowflakes of independence, when in large groups, we work best with rules, guidelines, and expected behaviour - both as people, and as technology and information consumers.

Big data always wants more data. They'll always ask as much as they can, and then push to be able to ask more. It's almost always profit-driven, but almost never personal or intentionally malicious. There are a lot of really neat things that we can do now that you might take for granted, but would have been farfetched just five years ago, let alone ten. Almost all of the neat convenience features (like when you Google cookie shops and it gives you ones close to where you are) are a result of more information flowing back and forth.

The Information is the Spice.
Is two step really necessary if you have a strong password? My old google account stopped sending messages to my phone number and after a bit I lost complete access to it because the authenticator app managed to reset itself and my backup codes didn't work. I have been wary about two step verification since then and do not use it.
Post edited January 05, 2016 by octoling
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nightcraw1er.488: Whilst I agree with two step authentication, it shouldn't be on just logging in, that's ridiculous. Anyone with half a mind on security or good operation would have internet wiped at browser close? Sure if I change something vital in my account then there should be an email which I then click to confirm.
Yeah, as I've said, I'd want (optional) two-step verification to GOG for whenever I or someone else tries to change either the account password, or the email address.

On top of that, maybe an email notification (not a verification!) if someone tries to access my GOG account from another country or something like that. Just a notification, not demanding a verification dammit! Then if I am notified, I know I should probably change my account password, unless I know it was me who accessed the account from abroad (yeah I've sometimes done that with my laptop, go figure).

Sites like hotmail and Humble Bundle and Steampowered.com have gone overboard with it. Steampowered and HB require email verification for simply having my cookies cleared on the browser (which means pretty much whenever I try to login to said sites with a browser), while Hotmail apparently triggers the verification if it seems I am accessing email from a new place/country. That caused me almost being unable to read my emails in Norway, but luckily I could open a VPN connection which fooled Hotmail to think I am in Finland, and I could finally read my emails.
Post edited January 05, 2016 by timppu
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pimpmonkey2382.313: You're taking tinye all too seriously.
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Grargar: Somebody has to do it.
Quit trodding on my territory!