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by Noumenon72 2900 days ago
I think https://aaronparecki.com/oauth-2-simplified/ explains that the cryptographic signature approach (if that's what they mean by "client secret") was discarded because mobile apps and single-page Javascript apps can't maintain the confidentiality of a secret anyway.

So maybe OAuth 1.0 is only better for apps running on a server?