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by TriNetra 1910 days ago
In reality, most of the applications are using it for authentication: to identify who you are using your GitHub, FaceBook or Google account. Authorization is the process of determining whether the identity can perform the specified action on the specified data [0]; such social logins provide close to no real options to users to specify this aspect.

0: https://aspsecuritykit.net/guides/designing-activity-based-d...