Reply to post: Re: "73% of users worldwide use their Google or Facebook accounts to log into other apps"

Americans far more willing to hand over personal data

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Re: "73% of users worldwide use their Google or Facebook accounts to log into other apps"

How is anyone going to compromise my "online life" when I don't even use my real name as my handle in forums? I'm guessing you don't either, though maybe I'm going too far in assuming your unusual handle is not your real name.

If my Reg account or other account not tied to anything important like money or private information is taken over by hackers, big deal. I make a new account, life goes on just as before. Who here would notice or care if DS999 started posting against the rules and the moderators cancelled the account, and I had started using DS444 or Sleazebot or whatever new handle I decided to create when I was no longer able to login to the DS999 account?

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