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That is our goal. There are a few different use-cases where no account is great and a few where you may want to create an account.

Buying something from an ecommerse website could be either or. You may want to save some specifics or preferences. Others may need you to create an account to come back, especially if there is critical data being stored. I agree that passwords are dangerous.

We used our own auth to create a "try it out" page on Webflow. We do need an email (but it does not have to be validated) so we can go to our backend and create an App key so you can try the snippet. If you come back, you also do not have to validate, but if you want to go into our app deeper, we have you validate because otherwise, you will not be able to get back after the tokens expire, you use a different browser, etc.

What is really exciting is a world where you can validate without an email or phone number. So you can come back without needing more data.




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