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Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by guelo on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @08:42PM (#16863691)
Things will break like logging in with Google/Facebook/other OAuths that use popup window redirects, iframe services like Disqus or Facebook comments, Google's captcha will become more annoying, less local caching will happen which means slower browsing in general.
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by saltcured on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:33PM (#16863946)
When you say login would break, what do you mean? Just that it would be less convenient, i.e. you have to login to your identity provider once for each first party? Or are you suggesting that the redirect flow for OpenID Connect or oauth wouldn't work at all?
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by mehrdadn on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @09:07PM (#16863798)
Yet another reason why you should avoid using service to log into another as much as possible.
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by ams6110 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:17AM (#16864563)
I'm really of two minds about this. On the one hand you can use Facebook or Google to log in and then have them know what sites you log into. Or you can use a site's native login and be pretty sure that at some point you're going to get a "we take security very seriously" notice after they screw up and expose all their user data.
Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by waterbomb0 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:56AM (#16864992)
If you use a password manager with different passwords for each site it doesn't matter (much). Either they steal your password (usually hashed), or your OAuth information.

The minor difference is that with OAuth they cannot log-in to the site pretending to be you, but if they don't hash the passwords, or use weak method to do it, then it's possible.

Regarding other user data stored in the DB (which is usually more valuable than just the passwords) there is no difference between the login method.

Re:Facebook Container for Firefox by mehrdadn on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @01:26AM (#16864868)
I don't really see how logging in with a different system prevents your user data from being exposed?