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Re:Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? by drawfloat on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:48AM (#32538425)
That doesn’t solve the issue of passwordless login, though, which is the fact not everyone has access to their email on every device at all times.

Need to check something attached to a work email (hello Slack) but purposefully not got work email set up on your personal device? Good luck

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Re:Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? by smt88 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:16AM (#32541002)
> Need to check something attached to a work email (hello Slack) but purposefully not got work email set up on your personal device?

This isn't worse or different than SSO, which your work should be enforcing anyway.

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Re:Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? by solarkraft on Sunday August 21, 2022 @05:51AM (#32538703)
It's not only having "access to your emails", sometimes these services will send links that are supposed to open in an app and do something there.

... and it just doesn't work.

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Re:Why don’t we do email verification in reverse? by Groxx on Sunday August 21, 2022 @06:01AM (#32538744)
Want to log in on your TV?

Ha. Good luck with that. Your email provider probably only supports Chrome.

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