Comments on: Nielsen Wants Your Passwords to Be Visible to the World https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/ Useful Resources For Webmasters Mon, 04 May 2026 06:57:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.42 By: redwall_hp https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/#comment-9876 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 20:56:39 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2322#comment-9876 You make a valid point.

I think that the creation of the option shouldn't be something shoved off onto web developers though. It should be an option in the browser or operating system. Something like a toggle in the settings to not mask the passwords.

Thanks for commenting. It's always nice to here another perspective, instead of it just being me ranting. :)

EDIT: If you use Firefox, there are a few addons that can remove the blobs/asterisks from password forms as you type. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search?q…

]]> By: Murf https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/#comment-9871 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:47:00 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2322#comment-9871 A word in defense of the disabled… Unlike you 'perfect beings' I am dyslexic and often have much frustrating dificulty logging in with 'blobbed-out' passwords… I know my passwords but so many times the letters get typed in the wrong order and sometimes I get locked -out because the system thinks I am a hacker! How much better to have the option (at least, no need to make it default) of being able to see what you type, and corect any mistakes before hitting the enter key! Please think of those less able than yourselves…..

]]> By: Klaus Johannes Rusch https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/#comment-8966 Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:04:05 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2322#comment-8966 Having an option in the browser to reveal passwords might help in some cases. Revealing passwords by default is a bad idea.

]]> By: Saurab https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/#comment-8796 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:18:43 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2322#comment-8796 LOL, many times we access our websites sitting beside our friends, though they dont watch us what we type in our keyboard, but making password visible make it lot easier for them to get our passwords which me might be using on other websites also.

]]> By: Steve Yakoban https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/#comment-8731 Thu, 02 Jul 2009 20:32:39 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2322#comment-8731 Nielsen has way too much attention with his usability rants. Sure usability is important, but even with every usability feature enabled, some people (unfortunately) are disabled so much that they still can't use the web. So somewhere you have to find a balance between reasonable usability and extremism. He's an extremist because he makes a lot of money being one – he's really not virtuous as he would want you to believe.

]]> By: designfloat.com https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/#comment-8709 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:44:53 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2322#comment-8709 Nielsen Wants Your Passwords to Be Visible to the World…

Why password masking is still relevant to the modern web….

]]> By: Blaine Moore https://www.webmaster-source.com/2009/06/30/nielsen-wants-your-passwords-to-be-visible-to-the-world/#comment-8708 Tue, 30 Jun 2009 20:19:56 +0000 http://www.webmaster-source.com/?p=2322#comment-8708 I have a plugin that allows me to display a password if I want – but I'd much prefer it stay hidden by default!

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