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by prezjordan 1829 days ago
Not a dumb question, very much appreciate you keeping an eye out for your password security. It uses an OAuth flow so you're actually entering your credentials on accounts.spotify.com (Spotify-owned) and then Spotify gives this developer a token (rather than a username+password) to access your data (usually a very limited subset of data outlined on the login page).
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Oh I see, makes sense! Thanks for the answer - very much appreciated!
any idea why it uses ngrok when I go to the sign in flow? Chrome is saying the connection is insecure.
he's probably just using ngrok as a server and the SSL cert on that ngrok process probs isn't verified by a CA. just a guess tho