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Seems to me you're being needlessly pedantic here. If you truly don't have a Google or a GitHub account, why not make a throwaway one for the purpose of signing
by esperent 6y ago
Seems to me you're being needlessly pedantic here. If you truly don't have a Google or a GitHub account, why not make a throwaway one for the purpose of signing in to things? No personal details are required to do so, and it'll take about 3 minutes if your time - pretty much exactly as long as it would take to sign up to this service using your email address, in fact.
- tiffanyh 6y agoLet’s say I do your suggestion over and over again ... well now this “throwaway” account just became my primary account credential. Now what happens if Gmail or Github shutdowns my account. Now I’m locked out of all of these services I used to signup for. Some of these services might be business critical. That’s why I don’t like allowing a 3rd party to own my account creditials.
- esperent 6y agoWhy would these companies shut down an account that you only use for credentials?
- neongreen 6y agoYour account might be linked to another account that did something malicious. I'm not 100% sure but I've heard enough Google horror stories that I am migrating to Apple sign-in for everything. (Yeah, assuming that Apple won't start doing the same.)
- esperent 6y agoWhy would an account that you only use to sign in to things be linked to another account that did something malicious? And what about GitHub? Have you heard of them closing accounts?