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If Google and/or Facebook wanted to get a leg up on this, they would provide some guarantee (that the site owner is required to respect) that signing in with Go
by haberman 12y ago
If Google and/or Facebook wanted to get a leg up on this, they would provide some guarantee (that the site owner is required to respect) that signing in with Google/Facebook is sufficient to start using the site.
Nothing is more aggravating than deciding to sign in with Google or Facebook, only to make the site force you to create a new username/password anyway.
It's like, the whole reason I was willing to let you correlate my identity with this Google or Facebook account is to buy the convenience of not having to make a new username/password, confirm my email address, etc. If you make me do that anyway, I've sold you a little bit of privacy for absolutely nothing in return. This makes me feel used. It feels like a bait-and-switch.
- johnmaguire2013 12y agoAgree. It's terrible UX with the current system too: Every time you click the button you sit and hope to god that you will see a dashboard on the next load. But you have no idea. Unpredictability is the biggest usability sin, imo.
- rspeer 12y agoFor what it's worth, you can get most of that privacy back by revoking the app's permission to use your Google account, at https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions . I once made the mistake of trying to actually log in to Quora, they pulled that bait and switch, and I had to do this just so that Quora would stop re-directing me to their signup process.
- hobarrera 12y agoThat's just right. By signing up on a new website using facebook, I get all the downsides of facebook login (having to log into facebook, having them track me, giving the website a bunch of personal data), and I still have to do the manual registration form. There are no upsides for me (except maybe not having to manually type my email address).