• bus_factor@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    This is fine for stuff I don’t care that much about, like an account with your hairdresser or a pizza place, but if you tie all your actually important stuff to the same account and you get locked out for whatever reason, now you’re locked out of your whole life.

    I prefer unique passwords and a password manager. But you do have to back up the password manager data as well as any data you have with cloud providers.

    • valar@lemmy.ca
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      12 hours ago

      For me the bigger issue is privacy. If you’re using Google to log into everything, Google gets to add all of that activity to their profile on you, and track you as you use every website you go to. No thanks. Google doesn’t need to know I’m buying a pizza tonight.

      • bus_factor@lemmy.world
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        11 hours ago

        That is also a concern and why I always default to a separate account even for those things, but I wouldn’t assume that data doesn’t get sold to Google regardless.

        • partofthevoice@lemmy.zip
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          8 hours ago

          Google knows when you use their services to sign in, and for what third party they’re authorizing the requests. The data doesn’t need to be sold back to Google.

        • valar@lemmy.ca
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          11 hours ago

          I prefer to use different email aliases for everything to mitigate that

          • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            6 hours ago

            from what i’ve read, ALL email ( possible 0.000something tolerance/error ) goes through google’s mail-transfer-agents.

            If they want a copy of every email that goes across the internet, they’ve got the saturation-of-core-servers to have that.

            There simply isn’t any way to bypass that.

            on an irrelated note, i wish public key encryption had been normalized, & worked right…

            ( Snowden got stung by a misconfiguration, 1 time, & if geeks get stung, then it isn’t ready for normals )

            🙏

            • valar@lemmy.ca
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              6 hours ago

              The important part is whether they can associate two identities together. If you use a shared Google login for everything you’re doing their work for them.