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The worst offenders are sites that lead you into logging in with a social account and then ask you to add your email and create a password anyway.
by janus 14y ago
The worst offenders are sites that lead you into logging in with a social account and then ask you to add your email and create a password anyway.
- davidroberts 14y agoThe worst offenders are those that lead you into a social login, then post every page you view on your facebook wall. I've learned some fascinating things about my friends' reading tastes this way, but I'm sure they weren't happy about it.
- anoncow 14y agoSome use social login as an alternative to valid email id testing(atleast i do). Saves money when your outbound email is quota restricted (appengine).
- paranoiacblack 14y agoYes, I do this exact same thing. I really don't want to store password on my side and I'm of the impression that sites like Google, Facebook, and Twitter do this better than I ever will and that most of the users visiting the site will have some kind of account on these sites. Ignoring man-in-the-middle attacks, if one of the above thinks the email is valid, I have no reason not to. As a disclaimer, though, I've worked on highly specialized apps where the users belong to a certain organization bound by one of the above. For example, I made a website for my school and every student there has an email address that is tied to that school's Google Apps for Edu account, so I'm guaranteed that all valid users (students) will be able to log in via Google.
- jbigelow76 14y agoI whole heartedly agree with this. Any site that tries that I immediately stop creating the account.