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Personally I use login with Google because: 1. I “trust” google auth - I know they won’t store passwords in plaintext or anything funny like that 2. It’s a centralized place I can use to rotate my keys 3. I can revoke accounts

Signing up via email on each site means a password manager entry at a minimum, and probably no 2FA, or brute force resistance.

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I never use login with Google, because if one day some automated process decided to suspend my account then I'd also lose access to all other systems I was using Google for authentication.

You're basically at the mercy of getting hold of google's nearly nonexistant support to get this resolved

As a user with a $19/year Google One subscription, I find Google support quite easy to reach.

But will they still treat you that way after an errant classifier puts you in the wrong bin?

Unless you get auto-suspended and end up receiving non-answers as explanations until you drum up enough twitter attention for a non-outsourced support employee to revert the decision and say "We identified an error that automatically suspended your account and have resolved the issue" a week of frustration later.

I also pay $dollars/year for Google. Turns out, when you start paying people money, and it becomes a legal liability for them to screw up, they act...better?

I have a one-click button to download all my data from Google (which turns out to be an absolute pain because it's in the ~100s of GB range).

Yeah, good luck with that button after they've pushed theirs first.

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