I’ve been predicting that for OIDC for a while: “Starting January 1st 2025 the use of Google accounts to log in to third party services will require a premium s

I’ve been predicting that for OIDC for a while: “Starting January 1st 2025 the use of Google accounts to log in to third party services will require a premium subscription unless those services subscribe to Google Authentication services…” Wham, now Google levies a tax on all SaaS vendors or users that allowed Google login. It’d be a great way to monetize gmail after AI ruins their search business. Computers are annoying and so people will always tend to trade freedom and autonomy for convenience. But if you do that, realize that once you are locked in that relationship will either be directly monetized or (often worse) abused for surveillance. A certain amount of inconvenience is probably going to always be the cost of privacy and actually owning your data. An even shadier thing OIDC providers could do is start logging into user services as the user to spider them for surveillance data. I’m sure the terms of service allow that. The ToS always allows everything, especially for anything free.