Verification Codes.

One-Time my ass, more like, repeated times. I’m so tired of verification codes up the ass these days. Just today, I had to reset my PayPal password. So that meant there was a code sent to an e-mail address after the reset process was set, to begin with. Then I had to go through the obstacle of verifying the information of the account. And then even after the password was reset, I’m sent ANOTHER freaking code right after!

And it’s even more frustrating to deal with, with my bank. I’ve gotten random verification checks for making internal transfers within my account. Things I’ve done without any issue. But just one day, I got THREE verification checks to do what I needed to do!

This verification shit has gotten out of hand! I want it to just die, just like captcha. Whatever purpose they originally were intended to do, is lost in translation, because now they’re just obstacles that wastes our time every minute we have to bother with them.

  • VinegarChunks@lemmus.orgEnglish
    34·
    2 days ago

    I can’t stand the growing idea that you can’t be trusted with a password and default to emailing a login link every single time you log in.

    • Necrifyre@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      It’s like nothing trusts you anymore. Everything assumes you have to be some bot of some kind. So, go through a little obstacle course to prove otherwise. Hold a button down for 10 seconds. Click all of these stupid traffic lights and crosswalks. Line up the animals - am I in fucking elementary school or something? What is this dogshit?

      It’s all insulting as well as annoying.

    • CandyMountainCharlie@feddit.onlineEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      This gives me RAGE. If you can’t trust your users with a simple password, how can you trust them to keep their email secure?! Let me use a friggin password!

    • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      Especially on sites where it doesn’t fucking matter. No one is interested in hacking my power or internet bill.

      • VinegarChunks@lemmus.orgEnglish
        10·
        2 days ago

        It is a pain in the ass for me to pay my wife’s student loans because they keep wanting to email her verification codes. Who gives a fuck if an unauthorized hacker breaks in and pays her student loans?

        • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Same for my mortgage! There’s literally nothing on that ghetto website but the payment option. No PII, nada.

    • MagicShel@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Can I interest you in having to scan a QR code every time you log in? How about opening YouTube?