Scenario 1 – You are checking the Status of your package on Amazon. You login in the morning. Click Account. Track Packagaes. Amazon.com ‘forces’ you to login again. Why? Ah. Security.
You do this 10 times. You are forced to login 10 times.
Scenario 2. Ebay. Imagine you are bidding on an item and are opening/closing the browser multiple times in a day (without logging off). Most of the times, ebay forces you to verify your credentials just after you click ‘Bid Now’.
The problem doesn’t end here. This is a problem virtually with all the pages on the web.
Why do you have to login everytime even if it’s the same computer or mobile device that you are using?
It’s frustrating for the user to login so many times even if it’s your own personal laptop. Perhap’s Banking sites can be an exception but I don’t see why this cannot be implemented for other non-financial sites without compromising on Security.
Corporates solve a part of this by using the Windows credentials for across their proxy servers and sometimes rational, clearcase and others as well. The concept of Cookies for session handling is more than a decade now. Web 2.0 (or is it Web 3.0 already?) needs a much more personalized login mechanism to authenticate the user just once and never again on a device unless ‘triggered’ by a pre configurable event. What we need is a Single Sign on across devices and across desktop/web. It’s hard to see this realize without an incredibly sophisticated biotech human authentication but I won’t be surprised to see this in reality within the next 5 yrs.
Oh, I forgot I had to login to post this item, I thought I just logged in right the morning!
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