Seems someone doesn’t understand how OAuth works. It does not automatically give full access to your social media accounts, location history, and device cameras as the video says.
Using the Google button for instance will tell you exactly what permissions are being requested every time you login. Generally, it will be name, email, language, and sometimes profile picture. Aside from the profile picture you would give all the same information anyway to create an account. At least with OAuth there is no worry about passwords, especially for people who don’t have good password practices and reuse passwords between different sites.
What caught me most off guard was him saying that OAuth somehow grants sites access to your camera. That’s a permission controlled by the browser and not at all related to OAuth.
I’ve always had this question. When I login with Google, I know what data the website will get from my Google account. But what data can Google get from the website and my usage of it, if any? (besides, of course, that I have an account on said website).
How about a headline that’s not pure clickbait.
NEVER CLICK THESE ↪️
How else would you attract the paranoid weirdos.
What to do instead - be a normal human and create an account at the website.
After generating a unique email and password combination for said website.
…then storing that information in Chrome’s auto-fill because that’s way too much to remember. And the circle is complete.
Bitwarden, everybody!
Edit: and F I R E F O X
Password manager. Now if I could just get Google to purge all my old passwords, that would be great.
No problem, just use new passwords.
I do.
I use Fastmail.
And get your login details stolen because they didn’t hah and salt passwords correctly when the site is almost immediately hacked.
random password, email alias
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Such is
I just went through yesterday and killed a couple of these. Unfortunately, Airbnb retained my photo after I pulled the permission.
