Google announces an alternative to password in Gmail

Our use of online sites essentially required a password, despite the warnings about password-based data security, prompting some Google sites to use an alternative to passwords.

According to Tech Radar, a technology news site, the search giant Google has allowed sites such as Gmail and YouTube to access it without a password, as part of a simplification of the Google connection. Chrome to access sites more easily and in less time.

Google has announced the launch of a new feature: access to these sites using the fingerprint as an alternative to the Gmail password, and although it is currently being introduced in individual applications It is the first time that the company allows Android to use its fingerprints to verify the identity of users online.

For this to work, the phone must support the fingerprint lock screen system, and the new feature will work on the first experimental Google phones, including Google Pixel phones.