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The first point in the article was to have a login with FB, Google, etc. Most websites aren't special enough to warrant yet another account. Of course they nee

The first point in the article was to have a login with FB, Google, etc. Most websites aren't special enough to warrant yet another account. Of course they need to keep track of people.

Drakim 12y ago
But I don't want to hand off my FB, Google, etc to various websites. If a site only offers that, I simply close it and find another part of the web to browse instead.
- tshtf 12y ago
  2. Don't force visitors to use a 3rd-party provider. Always have a local option. As a counter point to (1), many visitors won't want to use their Facebook/Google accounts for authenticating to other sites.
  - tracker1 12y ago
    I tend to prefer the oauth options myself... I don't want to have to enter a bunch of information, or add yet another site to lastpass if I can avoid it... Though, if they ask for too much, I tend to just deny and move on... For example, it's interesting that a site within the past couple of minutes to sign into could use a local account, facebook or google... I clicked fb first, they wanted contact info and my full friends list... google, just my email... so I let it in with my google account. I think it really depends... I wouldn't offer social logins without also having a local option, but it really depends on your audience.
- Karunamon 12y ago
  Your account is never "handed off" - all of those schemes are based on openid or similar. All the site gets is a token.
  - jacquesm 12y ago
    But it requires you to have an account with some other party, such as Facebook or Google. What if you don't want that? Suddenly this service that you do want to use becomes unusable. And it also tells Facebook / Google etc what other sites you use, which is none of their business (not that they won't grab that info because of like buttons, analytics, embedded fonts or hosted JS but that's another matter).
    - Karunamon 12y ago
      Can't have your cake and eat it too. If you complain that you don't want to have to log into sites, it makes less sense to complain when there are ways to have unified logins so that's not necessary anymore.
- throwawaymsft 12y ago
  And that is literally the second point made in the article, to have a local fallback.

The first point in the article was to have a login with FB, Google, etc. Most websites aren't special enough to warrant yet another account. Of course they need to keep track of people.

Drakim 12y ago

But I don't want to hand off my FB, Google, etc to various websites. If a site only offers that, I simply close it and find another part of the web to browse instead.

tshtf 12y ago
2. Don't force visitors to use a 3rd-party provider. Always have a local option. As a counter point to (1), many visitors won't want to use their Facebook/Google accounts for authenticating to other sites.
- tracker1 12y ago
  I tend to prefer the oauth options myself... I don't want to have to enter a bunch of information, or add yet another site to lastpass if I can avoid it... Though, if they ask for too much, I tend to just deny and move on... For example, it's interesting that a site within the past couple of minutes to sign into could use a local account, facebook or google... I clicked fb first, they wanted contact info and my full friends list... google, just my email... so I let it in with my google account. I think it really depends... I wouldn't offer social logins without also having a local option, but it really depends on your audience.
Karunamon 12y ago
Your account is never "handed off" - all of those schemes are based on openid or similar. All the site gets is a token.
- jacquesm 12y ago
  But it requires you to have an account with some other party, such as Facebook or Google. What if you don't want that? Suddenly this service that you do want to use becomes unusable. And it also tells Facebook / Google etc what other sites you use, which is none of their business (not that they won't grab that info because of like buttons, analytics, embedded fonts or hosted JS but that's another matter).
  - Karunamon 12y ago
    Can't have your cake and eat it too. If you complain that you don't want to have to log into sites, it makes less sense to complain when there are ways to have unified logins so that's not necessary anymore.
throwawaymsft 12y ago
And that is literally the second point made in the article, to have a local fallback.