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I logged in with my Reddit account in a previous edition. This year I deleted my Reddit account in protest. Therefore, goodbye AoC history.

It put a stark ~~contrast~~ focus on why I don't use those signups options: because the two times I've used it it came back to bite me (the other one being when Google blocked my account for months).

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Yeah - this is what happened to me too.

I deleted my Reddit account because I don't want to support Reddit any longer, so I lose access to anything I used "Sign in with Reddit" for - it's subtle lock in that tends to only hit issues months later.

It's why I never use social media logins for anything that gives me the choice not to.

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