I've never given my username and password directly to websites, except for Etacts. For the other sites, I simply authorized them (through the Google interface) to access certain functionalities. Behind the scenes Google doesn't provide them with my password: https://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?answer...
They also put such sites on a list of that is accessible from your account. You can remove sites from that list at any time.
> Also, man, what is the point of DBANing your install?
Yeah, that's sort of unrelated. I've been planning a clean install for a while.
> you give your usernames and passwords to websites and then be surprised that they use them?
When THEY use them? No. When someone else does, yes.
Anyway, we have beaten this horse to death many times over.