Yes, now you ask the company you are trying to use the services of to allow your application to be a valid authentication agent of. Since when doesn't it make

Yes, now you ask the company you are trying to use the services of to allow your application to be a valid authentication agent of. Since when doesn't it make sense to ask to tie in your app when it's to be used with a different service when you care about that? This is for login to a Google account, just plain searching on google.com or viewing a video on Youtube. We can complain about web standards all we want, but this isn't access to the open web we're talking about here, it's access to Google's service ecosystem that requires a Google account, and them gating that however they want is their prerogative.