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I'm 56. By far the oldest person on my team and older than most of the managers and executives. I've done it all since starting with computers when I was probably 12. I work for small companies where they let me work largely by myself on large problems. I love the challenge of learning new things and am all over AI tools to automate out the redundant boring parts of the being a programmer.

I have been fortunate and successful and managed my finances. I don't even have to work if I don't want to anymore. I do it to keep my brain challenged.

But if I was stuck in a boring mundane programming job for a mega corp then I would retire in a second. I've never stayed at a company once it's grown too big. Middle management kills creativity and sucks the life out of your soul.

This is the most accurate assessment. Considering how "not secure" email is in general and how easy it is for this information to be passed around behind the scenes this is almost a non-story.

I feel this article really stunk of an attempt to over-sensationalize some sloppy coding that is probably happening on 50% of the websites in the world. To think otherwise is nothing but a utopian view of reality.

It's pretty simple to validate. Create two different FB developer accounts. Then create a Login with FB type app for each account. Then use a third FB account to login to each different app and use the FB Graph api to view the user id in the tokens. It will be different.

This FB ID strategy has been in place for at least 2-3 years.

FB generates a different user id for each FB application id.

"Facebook issues app-scoped user IDs for people who first log into an instance of an app, and page-scoped user IDs for people who first use a Messenger bot. By definition, this means the ID for the same person may be different between these apps and bots."

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/apps/for-business

So the 10 billion number the researchers quoted does not necessarily represent individual users.