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by said 3782 days ago
I've seen some great answers on Quora, but their growth is possibly due to spam. I hate to accuse them of that, but...

Quora lets you sign up using a Google account. Normally, this means you won't need to create a new password. However, Quora immediately asks you to provide one.

With that in mind, what's the point of linking your Google account? Well, according to this recent thread, Quora tries to access your contacts:

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/3ax27p/tried_to_re...

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That seems possible. Everything I've seen from that site indicates it's terrible.