Checking your email for the login link was confusing?

I hate the email login link stuff, and any site that has it as the only option, I move on unless absolutely forced to use it.

Especially a pain if I'm trying to login on a device without my email.

You don't need to have email on the device you are logging in from

Can take out phone and click link

> Can take out phone and click link

That assumes you have that email account on your phone. Also that you have your phone with you, that your phone has signal / wifi, there's no delays, no greylisting, no spam filtering that might catch the email, ...

There's just too many simple ways it can break down for it to be a good system.

Okay, but what if you don't know your password and your password manager is offline or you don't have access to it on your phone or the phone ran out of battery or... I assure you we can find a similar amount of cases where passwords would fail. It's mostly novelty phobia.

We're used to one way of working and have our setups for that. We don't want something different but not because it's worse. It's just different.

And even more, when you have a problem with your password, what do you have to do, yes, email for the most part.

On at least half of those services, that ends up with me being logged in on my phone which is decidedly not what I want.

Plus I don't know who's using that to help adtech build their cross device mappings

Some of the ones that doesn’t work - it logs you in on your phone but not the computer you were trying to login on

Email I wanted to use as a login is a totally be a different email than what I wanted to forward to.