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Originally Posted by ladida
Just the thought of you using htpasswd makes you at least 10 years behind on technology.
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I would roughly estimate that the great majority of adult sites still employ HTTP basic authentication in some form, likely with authn_dbd and probably mod_auth_form. When marketing LoginBlue, I looked at hundreds of paysites and the kinds of forms they use.
Being behind on technology is not necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes the right tool for the right job isn't new. But you are correct in thinking that this is a deprecated concept to employ these days, when there are many better alternatives.