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Two-factor authentication, obviously, even e-mail based.

You've just lost 95% of your users.

Taking 10 minutes to solve one reCaptcha is also a good way to lose users. There are plenty of websites I refuse to use now because they have outrageous reCaptchas.

2FA requires you to be a registered user. That's a whole new level of user friction.

Same here, I HATE CAPTCHA's.

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