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by fsuts 7 hours ago
Profit margin of authentication providers.

They must be ridiculously high

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I never really thought about this, as I work in sectors where authentication is usually selfhosted. Why is authentication out sourced so much? Is it the worry of data leaks and the administration effort that comes with it?
Because no exec gets fired if a 3rd party was the problem.

Systems down costing millions in sale? = fired

Systems down due to Azure issue = oh well