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		mrweasel on Nov 14, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Don't use third party auth to sign in Sadly everyone wanted to be an OpenID provider, very few wanted to be a consumer of OpenID. Neither Google, Facebook nor any of the other major Internet sites where ever going to allow you to authenticate using a 3rd party.

satyrnein on Nov 14, 2020 | [–]

Actually, Facebook was in fact a relying party for a time. See https://www.wired.com/2009/05/facebook-opens-up-to-openid/ for example.

Adoption was negligible so they eventually killed it.

alisonkisk on Nov 14, 2020 | [–]

OAuth is exactly the same. You can't log in to Facebook using your Google account.

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