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There's an important difference between email as an identifier in your own system, versus email as an identifier for a linked Google account. I agree with you t
by strken 3y ago
There's an important difference between email as an identifier in your own system, versus email as an identifier for a linked Google account. I agree with you that email works okay as an identity within a system you control, but agree with Google that it's a terrible way of linking with an external system: ephemeral, potentially tied to multiple accounts (!), and pointless when you've got an actual ID to use instead.
- apitman 3y agoThat's fair. I'm coming at this from the perspective that using Google SSO is great for UX, but a bad idea for privacy and vendor lock-in reasons. I built LastLogin.io to provide the SSO UX without sacrificing privacy and to eventually move towards better protocols for user-controlled identity