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Re:Google login now requires Google+ Account by svitcov on Saturday July 20, 2013 @02:53PM (#6076107)
This would be an ideal solution for this situation, but the problem remains: if I cannot authenticate via the 3rd party initially, the service has no way of knowing that I am actually the owner of the account. I am not sure what the working implementation of this looks like.
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Re:Google login now requires Google+ Account by pessimizer on Saturday July 20, 2013 @03:41PM (#6076284)
Email verification with a newly generated local password. That's what Meetup did after I quit Facebook, and it was only 3-4 minutes of friction.
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Re:Google login now requires Google+ Account by svitcov on Saturday July 20, 2013 @08:45PM (#6077243)
Doh. Of course - that would have been easy and effective.
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