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Originally Posted by Cactus Chef
Single Sign-On/ OAUTH has outlived its usefulness outside of a corporate setting. It may have made sense for some at one time to Sign-In With Google or Sign-In With Facebook when everyone had weak passwords and were scrambling to remember them all. But with password managers freely available everywhere now, SSO causes more headaches than it solves. Just create a unique account for every website.
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It was always evil too. I've never used it and always had unique password for every site.
OAUTH is designed to reduce privacy. It's not actually more secure, just a pain. See also MS and others attempts to "abolish" passwords.