Concentration and centralization (was Free software during wartime)

Posted Mar 24, 2023 2:56 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
In reply to: Concentration and centralization (was Free software during wartime) by Cyberax
Parent article: Free software during wartime

> This way you can get all the benefits of Google account (like the ability to log into websites)

This is terrible. I try to sign up to individual accounts where I can (and need an account) in order to avoid SPOF (especially one with as terrible customer support history as Google…and most other common OAuth providers for that matter).

I use Fastmail and recommend it (yes, Five Eyes and Australia, but given that Google is receiving the vast majority of my email anyways…I find it hard to justify going too far down that path).

Concentration and centralization (was Free software during wartime)

Posted Mar 24, 2023 3:05 UTC (Fri) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> This is terrible. I try to sign up to individual accounts where I can (and need an account) in order to avoid SPOF (especially one with as terrible customer support history as Google…and most other common OAuth providers for that matter).

I recently migrated everything from Lastpass to BitWarden, and as a part of the migration, I also switched email to my own domain.

I believe I only had a couple of services that didn't allow me to change from Google's Oauth to email+password, out of several hundred. Typically you just need to request the password reset and then just keep logging in with the new password.

Let's see what the future brings with passkeys...