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> Obviously, anything with OAuth is "bundled" into my Google account. So if anything this is a huge underestimate.

If Google ever pulls the plug on you, you're in for a bad time.



I guess despite how cool it is to hate Facebook in 2023 there’s a really solid case to be made that it’s a smarter “OAuth” choice than Google, since with Google, if you fell back to resetting your password for another site to get in after a Google account shutdown, the email on the account would be the same Gmail account that you’re locked out of!




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