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Another bonus with magic links. In my experience people pay waaaay more attention to their email accounts than they do to almost any other authentication system they interact with. So chances are higher that they'll have a secure password, rotate their password, maybe even have MFA. (I said higher, but I didn't say likely ;) .)

Anyway, I think for certain kinds of applications this is a fantastic auth solution.

The only possible downside is that you've introduced a dependency on mail deliverability into a core piece of your application. But email deliverability may be a big enough issue that you want it solved anyway.



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