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Good way to kill your site, this is the one thing everyone hates, from the enthusiast to the casual user, making an useless account for 1 service that you barely use.
Slap Google SSO on that and you're good. Honestly that's worse than regular registration.
Yeah, if I see a "register an account on this random website" I roll my eyes or close it/back out. If I see "sign in via Google/fb" I recoil with a "fuck no".
Yeah, I initially was ok with it, but as I have watched these companies I have become less and less ok. I have been contemplating making dummy accounts full of erroneous data so all of the metrics are wrong as a giant middle finger. Sure, I'm a 72-year-old woman in Des Moines, or am I an 80-year-old man in DC? Maybe a 22-year-old in LA? Who knows.
I have a trash google account I made for android emulation and I just use that for those kinds of things.
The only time I check that mailbox is to click verify links.
Decentralized SSO on the other hand has the potential to be both convenient and privacy respecting.
Especially considering all the data breaches that you hear about.
Hi, I work in IT, for every big profile data breach you hear about, there are 4 that never make the news.
On mobile it is pretty common to force the user to create an account before being able to use the app, so people may already be trained on it.
Probably what google is banking on. The world relies so heavily on the internet that if every site required sign in there is very little choice people have besides just not using the internet.
If they need permission for third party cookies and those are now no longer possible, the popups can go already.
And if a site doesn't want to serve people that do not accept data hoarding, an account with terms and conditions is the only logical way to go.
Belgium forced facebook to not track users without an account and they reacted by doing this exact thing (requiring an account to even read pages). It made it a lot easier for me to not having to deal with Facebook at all. If some store or organization only had the info on Facebook, I'll just tell them I can't access it 🤷♂️
It's already fucking bad enough when they popup a newsletter sign up halfway through the article.
I'd pay fifty bucks every time to have the person who made that design decision slapped in the face with a haddock.