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Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in by Nursie on Saturday November 14, 2020 @10:51AM (#25093005)
As long as you don't want to use any Nest products, which now insist that you have a gmail.com address as apparently hosted domains are for business only.
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Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in by waynesonfire on Saturday November 14, 2020 @02:43PM (#25095009)
yep, noticed that too. i'm getting nagged to use my gmail login. what a virus.

i will add that it's possible to create a google account WITHOUT gmail,

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/27441?hl=en

maybe that's sufficient for nest.

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Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in by Nursie on Saturday November 14, 2020 @03:21PM (#25095307)
Hmm, thanks, I'll have a look into that. The objection to nest using "Google for Domains" or whatever they changed it to these days seems to be to do with the domain admin having access to everything. Which would be just fine for me, as I'm the only one that uses the domain.

Hopefully signing my address up that way, when it's already a domain account, won't b0rk all sorts of other things :/

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Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in by adrianmonk on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:22PM (#25094309)
There have been a ton of products where Google didn't initially support that but eventually added it. Maybe Nest will one day.

Obviously their sign-in/account infrastructure creates technical impediments against making their products do what they want. They should really fix that.

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Re:Don't use third party auth to sign in by Nursie on Saturday November 14, 2020 @01:58PM (#25094626)
It appears to have been a deliberate choice, and one they have justified on several occasions.

That's not to say you're wrong, but it would be a turnaround at this point.

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