I recently had a spirited discussion with someone about authenticating to various websites. I personally take the approach of making an explicit new identity for every service I sign up for — local logins only. I never user a "Social" login like twitter/facebook/google, etc to access a site.
My reasoning is:
For some background, I'm a ten year professional in Web Infrastructure, with Identity and Access Management making up a decent part of what I do. After pretty much being called an irresponsible professional and told that no identity information will leak due to the way OAUTH works, I thought I'd throw the question out to the community to get a feel for how you handle accounts to different websites, as well as the inherent tracking and security concerns thereof.
Bytram noted that we had a discussion on a similar topic a while back: Personal Privacy in a Surveillance World -- How Important is it? - SoylentNews
(Score: 3, Interesting) by zafiro17 on Saturday August 08 2015, @01:47PM
I do about the same thing. Can't believe anyone would want to authenticate to, fer example, Soylent News using their Yahoo/Google/Facebook/whatever information. Why link accounts? Unless it's in the name of laziness, that is.
I use different passwords for different systems, and keep a password keeper on my phone, which I religiously back up. Can't imagine doing it any other way until they make us authenticate using retinal scans against a government database, at which point I will be in my cave in Montana, oiling my gun and waiting for the Revolution.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by Nuke on Saturday August 08 2015, @07:11PM
Can't believe anyone would want to authenticate to, fer example, Soylent News using their Yahoo/Google/Facebook/whatever information. Why link accounts?
Lots of sites, particularly blogs and small specialised sites, just will not let you register to make comments or place queries without authentication from a major "social" site or specialised authenticator - Disqus keeps cropping up. I usually move on.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday August 09 2015, @01:20AM
Well its not a problem for me, because my FB? Its my shit account. I don't use my FB for shit, the only info it has is shit, and the only people I have as friends are ones i don't give a rat's ass about. So why would I care if some website learns about people I hate that do things I don't care about and which has less info on me than your average /. profile? Knock themselves out.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 09 2015, @06:55PM
So how do you really feel?...
(Not that I disagree, FB is apparently designed on the hazing/Stockholm principle. Make everyone suffer so that they feel devoted towards the cause of their punishment. It just make me want to kick Zuckerberg in the nuts)
(Score: 3, Informative) by Common Joe on Sunday August 09 2015, @02:52PM
Use something like no-script and get rid of your cookies between sessions.
It's amazing how many non-Facebook websites have Facebook javascripts running on their websites. No thank you. I don't know what information they track. By logging into the service on that other website and being logged into Facebook at the same time, they may transfer information between the two.
I do use Facebook to keep in contact with friends around the world. (For some of my friends, it's about the only good way to keep in contact with them. Yes, I know some of you disagree with my choice. But it's my choice.) To help mitigate that, I make sure my cookies are destroyed every time I close out Firefox. (There's a setting for that.) When I'm ready to log into an account that I don't want to be associated with my social networks, I close out Firefox then re-open it. And I make sure the Facebook scripts are not running on those other sites.
Food for though.