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Good intro on social logins and the end of the anonymous web
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"The notion that the world outside its homepage remains anonymous is increasingly untrue. Millions of internet users voluntarily give Facebook, Google, and others access to their movements across the web and on mobile when they use “social log in,” or the ability to sign in to a website using credentials from the big identity providers....
as mobile phones and tablets render old tracking mechanisms, such as cookies, increasingly ineffectual, identity is becoming the single most important tool to follow web users across multiple devices...
internet users have come to accept the trade-offs ... But it also means handing ever more to some of the richest and most powerful companies on the internet."
Facebook and Google account for over 80% of social log-ins,
- How Facebook and Google are taking over your online identity - Quartz
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