How hard is it to implement email verification?

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    If you use the same Google account for a bunch of different third party websites, Google gets to associate your activity on those websites to you, giving them more points of data about you. They wouldn’t offer themselves as a login option if they didn’t make money out of it.

    Also if you use your Google email for many other services it becomes even harder to ditch Google afterwards.

    • ikt@aussie.zone
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      1 day ago

      and what does that have to do with the random website that uses it for oauth?

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        The website doesn’t have to handle the code and security for their own login system, which reduces costs for them too.

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          right… so it’s not data mining it’s just easier to maintain

          somehow op has 46 upvotes for something that’s wrong