• thejml@sh.itjust.works
    421·
    5 hours ago

    Google and youtube are the same login though…

    Honestly i like these buttons from a user/security POV as oauth only passes back a “login successful” reply and an identifier to associate an account with. Less PII to spread around the internet.

    • clb92@feddit.dkEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      I hate it when it afterwards still prompts me to create a full account, on some badly made sites. Why even allow oauth login if I still have to give you all my personal data…

    • bus_factor@lemmy.world
      29·
      4 hours ago

      This is fine for stuff I don’t care that much about, like an account with your hairdresser or a pizza place, but if you tie all your actually important stuff to the same account and you get locked out for whatever reason, now you’re locked out of your whole life.

      I prefer unique passwords and a password manager. But you do have to back up the password manager data as well as any data you have with cloud providers.

      • valar@lemmy.ca
        25·
        4 hours ago

        For me the bigger issue is privacy. If you’re using Google to log into everything, Google gets to add all of that activity to their profile on you, and track you as you use every website you go to. No thanks. Google doesn’t need to know I’m buying a pizza tonight.

        • bus_factor@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 hours ago

          That is also a concern and why I always default to a separate account even for those things, but I wouldn’t assume that data doesn’t get sold to Google regardless.

          • valar@lemmy.ca
            1·
            2 hours ago

            I prefer to use different email aliases for everything to mitigate that