Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by tigeroil 721 days ago
I dare say this would actually be even more harmful than Pornhub holding people's IDs, as it would then give OpenID immense power to track not only the fact that you watch porn, but also what other services you use as well...
1 comments

That's my main gripe with OAuth and SSO logins. It's such an obvious tradeoff between convenience and centralizing power.

I don't really want GitHub knowing everything I sign into, but in some cases like Tailscale my only option is to tell GitHub about it or not use Tailscale.