"home" is a bad analogy. Online services can easily become central to your life: The prime example/offender is GMail. There are numerous stories of users who w

"home" is a bad analogy. Online services can easily become central to your life: The prime example/offender is GMail. There are numerous stories of users who were suddenly left without access to their account, with no explanation or recourse given. Some people get lucky and manage to reach an influential Googler through offline channels, and have their access reinstated. Average Joe on the other hand, might suddenly lose access to services linked to their GMail account, such as online banking, communications with important contacts, services that bill his credit card on a regular basis but that now Joe can't close the service or dissociate his card, due to having lost access. How does Joe lose access to linked services? (a) if he signed up using Google SSO, or (b) passwords were saved in his Chrome account that he no longer has access to, and (c) can no longer recover passwords that were registered with the GMail address. Yeah, Tinder/Fortnite are typically much less central to one's life, but for some people, due to social/health factors, these services are a gateway to an important part of their lives. Number one I can think of is we're still in a pandemic, and whether because many cities are still observing lockdowns or risk-averse individuals still prefer to isolate, people are being driven towards online services that facilitate social activities such as dating or playing some variation of virtual cops & robbers.