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What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?

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Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?

#4
I've seen these before; it feels way too intrusive and out of place on the page. If I'd clicked a "sign in with Google" button, then okay fine, but a big dialog covering the corner of the page? No thanks.

Checking out that page, the traditional signup button (which is what I'd use as I'd rather not use Google login) is actually under that dialog. You can't see it until you dismiss the dialog.

Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?

#5
hhm, how did they do that? I thought the google oauth flow required that it redirect to a google page (and show the info/permission the oauth flow is asking for).

Unless there's a security leak somewhere in cookies, which exposed your email address to this site (which doesn't belong to google i presume).

Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?

#7
Well, as a user I love it.

In the other hand, as a conscious consumer, I absolutely hate giving even more information to Google.

It would be cool to have an open source, non-profit organization to work as an universally accepted authentication provider platform. One can always dream.

Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?

#8
I find it to be intrusive and disturbing. Medium.com does this and I've always hated it.

Mediums usage of it actually caused me to switch, on my work computer, from always being logged into Google, to never being logged into my Google account. Now if I have to use one of my companies apps that requires a Google login, I do it incognito.

At home, I never browse while logged in, so I didn't ever notice it that much. Using my Google account for logging into a third party web application is never my first choice. I'll take separate email / passwords for everybody please and thank you.

Re: What Do You Think about This Seamless “Registering/Login” User Experience?

#10
It's probably using google oauth SDK https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2UserA... (there's no popup raised if you're already signed in google). You can then send and validate the token on server-side, and create an account there
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