So what ? I am still struggling to understand what immediate and painful need users have with trusting Apple, Facebook, Google etc with their identity.
If people had some issue with this then users would simply not use OAuth and default to creating an account for each service they use.
It's not so immediate until you get banned, but they've all been gradually stepping up their politicised banwaves. And there's always the concern about what happens when one of them goes the way of Yahoo.
> If people had some issue with this then users would simply not use OAuth and default to creating an account for each service they use.
Which has huge practical headaches, to the point that OAuth being the least-bad option doesn't say a lot.
Do you really believe this? Plenty of people use services they don't particularly like because it's better than the alternative or they have an immediate need. I know lots of people who didn't want to use zoom but needed to, have a Facebook account to keep up with family even though they'd rather not, etc.
Plenty of people would love an option that works as easy as oauth but doesn't lock them to a FAANG provider. Just because they use it when there's not another option doesn't mean they wouldn't use another option if it existed.
Using your Google account to log into everything is great....until your account gets locked.
https://www.pcmag.com/news/not-even-google-employees-can-unl...