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I have a legitimate question. If you delete your Facebook account, how does that affect your OAuth logins on other websites? I've been tempted to delete my Face
by viiralvx 10y ago
I have a legitimate question. If you delete your Facebook account, how does that affect your OAuth logins on other websites? I've been tempted to delete my Facebook account but there are unknowns about how that would play out in the social login space, so I'd be interested in your thoughts.
- clintonb 10y agoI can only speak for my own site. We don't receive any notifications from third-parties when accounts are closed. If you don't login again, you can use password reset with your email address to get a password for your account. Which email address depends on the primary address set at Facebook.
- lucb1e 10y agoI don't use OAuth ever, because: advantages: 1. log in once; be logged in everywhere 2. no password manager required because you have only one (or maybe a few) logins disadvantages (I'll just keep numbering to give it unique IDs): 3. if the provider is down, you can't login 4. the provider knows when and where you log in 5. if you decide to delete your account at the provider, you can't log in anymore 6. if the provider decides to delete your account because, say, you bought a fake Nexus (or what was the story recently?) or because you forgot to pay or just because there is a glitch on their end, you've got a problem 7. if your account gets hacked, everything got hacked. I just don't see how that tiny bit of convenience weighs up to all the issues of having a SPOF whose trustworthiness is questionable to begin with.
- hashtagMERKY 10y agoFor some reason I never used FB for other accounts - I always used Twitter or Google, so it wasn't a problem for me. I guess if I deleted my Google account a lot of things (GitHub, Freenom, Soundcloud) would go down too.