Let's say that a google/facebook/ms/github account login is implemented for PM. And that it is on a voluntary basis. The PM login page will have some JS script from said conglomerate to be fetched to my machine and run on my browser in order to show the login-with-this-id popup. That entails cookies, images, fonts and a zillion ways of tracking me which can further link my PM activity to my other digital footprint which can make it super-easy for anyone to find what I am doing right now, what address I have, what mobile phone I have. Whether it has already been infected with Predator or when a good chance to infect it may be. So, even if I ignore the login-with-this-id popup some pretty good damage to my privacy is already done. An AdBlock is no bullet proof solution as said items mutate constantly.

There is more. Suppose I reply to someone who has logged in with the conglomerate's id. Obviously, they track that person much harder than me. But now, because of my interaction with that person I am at the crosshairs too. All my answers etc. will be processed by the conglomerate's algorithm whereas in the usual case I would have gone, hopefully, unnoticed by the algorithm although it, obviously, has the freedom to sieve through all my public posts at PM. The difference now is that something the algorithm saw that I wrote to that person may have tickled its twisted, perverted curiosity and got the apetite for more of me and sieve through whatever I wrote here and then subsequently elsewhere.

Sure, I have nothing to fear and would not mind a police search in my house. Add a urine test to that too. That said, these are weird times. Privacy is not worth a dime. Not even human life. In fact people are now being killed because this is what an algorithm decides. The algorithm is so evilly ruthless to not hesitate to ignore the presence of Children or even command to kill them deliberately if the gain, algebraically, is positive. And the algorithm is fed among other things with our digital footprint. Yep, there are States researching this. Some are even running it and killing with it.

No, please don't do it. The site is great in its LO-FI style which has a quality of its own. Even if a thousand people voluntear to code this feature, and for free. There is a place I know where the (useful) idiots running the local airport succumbed to such a good-willing, private company (an oxymoron, I know) to enhance the passenger experience with "new features" by installing their own antennas and routers for the passengers' wifi. It turns out that a lot of personal data, mobile phone numbers, photoshoots, number plates, travelling destinations has been collected and crosslinked, before the authorities "found out" about it and gave them a token fine and let them go to their country.

In reply to Re: login with google account by bliako
in thread login with google account by ysth

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