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For a while I used it almost exclusively until I realized how much I was fucking my users over just because I was to lazy to properly implement a password system (still do not store them myself) besides the already huge power these corporations hold you make it very hard for users to delete their account with them by letting GlobalCorp™ hold their other accounts hostage.

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It’s funny how back when sites like StackOverflow were starting up, “social” logins like OpenID and, later, OpenID Connect were going to replace passwords. Now it’s “just use a password manager”.

Of the two, I strongly prefer a federated login system like OpenID that lets the user pick an identity provider

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