Re:How GitHub No Longer Works
by TylerE on Thursday November 14, 2013 @03:33PM
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And G+ is worse because the thing with Facebook...I'm never FORCED to reveal my Facebook identity on the open web. G+ doesn't really give me that option.
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Re:How GitHub No Longer Works
by aliakbarkhan on Thursday November 14, 2013 @04:08PM
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You've clearly never been to one of the many sites that insists you log in through Facebook.
But that's fine. I don't care if there's a multitude of services that I never use anyway, and they require facebook login.
I care when services that I do use, purely by virtue of being bought/owned by google, are claimed by a social site I don't use.
The only one I recall it being mandatory on is Quora. Most offer Facebook as an alternative.
And as a result, I never used Quora.
Spotify was doing it when I tried to join. They apparently changed it later, to not require Facebook. But, you know, first impressions being what they are, I'll never be a subscriber. Trust is hard to recover once lost. Guess Google is going to find that out the hard way.
Oh, it works without FB again? I joined when it was new but never used it much (niche musical taste). When I tried to login again a few (4-12) months ago, it wanted to force me to use FB so I just started ignoring them altogether.
You can join Quora with email only, Gmail auth, or Twitter.
Facebook has a similar real name policy to G+ and Facebook also considers names to be public info.
https://www.facebook.com/help/224995697512520 https://www.facebook.com/help/292517374180078