4 ms·

Google's login situation is because they tried to turn everyone into a Google+ user whether they wanted to be or not. Very different histories.

• shadowgovt 4y ago
  Not exactly. G+ was contemporary with / the spearhead for that initiative, but the desire to reify login was something Google was planning to do for awhile; they just used G+ as the focus project around which to pin the initiative. Nobody at Google was really thrilled with having three (four? five?) credential stacks, all with their own bespoke tooling, concept of what an "account" was, security stories, and administrative needs. (... the one thing that came out of G+ that has stuck around is infrastructure improvements. A lot of the stuff the G+ team wrote to support Google+ behind-the-scenes is still used at Google for other projects now).
  • Brian_K_White 4y ago
    And yet it is ridiculous that I have to respond to a 2fa on my phone just to watch youtube on my laptop, every. time. I have a paid yt account fine, but watching trivial videos is not in the same class with accessing my gmail, or managing my gmail, or even managing my own videos if I were a youtuber. I'm fine with being one identity (well no I'm not but pretend I am) but those are not all the same activity or class of activity.
    • shadowgovt 4y ago
      Hm. I don't, and now I'm curious why. My login never asks me to 2FA on my regular devices.
      • Kye 4y ago
        I've had that problem on websites when I turned on the strictest privacy settings.
        • Maken 4y ago
          Maybe they are subtly discouraging you from using those settings.
          • Brian_K_White 4y ago
            This.