Really want to ditch Facebook

810Bourne
810Bourne Posts: 53 Match Maker
in MtGPQ General Discussion
Seriously, my Google Play account is used to log in, why is this not used to sync my data in steady of Facebook. 

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  • andrewvanmarle
    andrewvanmarle Posts: 978 Critical Contributor
    Same here, I'd like to link to anything else but FB
  • ElfNeedsFood
    ElfNeedsFood Posts: 944 Critical Contributor
    Unfortunately your google account is probably almost as littered with the same headline catching stuff as FB. :( That said, fewer caches of data are a good thing. 
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    The damage is done, FB and Google already know everything and can bomb our houses from orbit if they like, just shrug and move on!
  • ElfNeedsFood
    ElfNeedsFood Posts: 944 Critical Contributor
    In some ways, gmail plus search history plus maps plus YouTube plus everything you've done on your phone is a scarier cache of data than what I've personally done with Facebook....  Then again, the facebook thing included things my "friends" did, and lots of those folks, not so smart...
  • Lars
    Lars Posts: 33 Just Dropped In
    The damage is done; but more damage may be done in the future. I'd like to unlink my account from facebook.
  • Furks
    Furks Posts: 149 Tile Toppler
    At least provide options other than only Facebook. Google, twitter... 
  • ElfNeedsFood
    ElfNeedsFood Posts: 944 Critical Contributor
    I think just a unique logon for MtG:PQ would be my option of choice (like logging into the forums here)

  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    The problem with smaller companies implementing their own logins is that they are far far less secure and prone to being hacked.

    You are better off google or FB controlling all your logins with good security but deliberately giving up some privacy to them then you are having 100 different small companies that at least one will be hacked which will lead to them getting into all your others accounts and having all your information too. At least with FB and Google public pressure works _slightly_ for now (effectively they are new countries or something rather than companies), but FB and Google aren't going to blackmail you or find your house or track down your gran or poison your prescriptions by changing them which _are_ the things that hackers that steal your data from small company run auth processes will do.

    It's BAD when small companies try and do security.
  • Lars
    Lars Posts: 33 Just Dropped In
    Kinesia said:
    The problem with smaller companies implementing their own logins is that they are far far less secure and prone to being hacked.

    You are better off google or FB controlling all your logins with good security but deliberately giving up some privacy to them then you are having 100 different small companies that at least one will be hacked which will lead to them getting into all your others accounts and having all your information too.
    Stop using the same password for all your accounts, or get yourself a password manager.
  • 810Bourne
    810Bourne Posts: 53 Match Maker
    Uh, some of us have been trying to get rid of Facebook for a while 

    This is not new  I want off of all social media. Sick of it .
  • Lars
    Lars Posts: 33 Just Dropped In
    810Bourne said:
    Uh, some of us have been trying to get rid of Facebook for a while 

    This is not new  I want off of all social media. Sick of it .
    Then welcome the new influx of people who now share your concerns as a result of recent revelations about privacy violations,
  • 810Bourne
    810Bourne Posts: 53 Match Maker
    Yuck. Social media blows. If not for all of myself mobile gamers using it for syncing  I would just get rid of it  
  • Theros
    Theros Posts: 490 Mover and Shaker
    we've been trying to get rid of FB for a while even before the recent incident. I had to open a FB for this game only.
    For me I want the game to sync with our existing Google accounts.
  • Laeuftbeidir
    Laeuftbeidir Posts: 1,841 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited March 2018
    MADAFAKA said:
    we've been trying to get rid of FB for a while even before the recent incident. I had to open a FB for this game only.
    For me I want the game to sync with our existing Google accounts.
    We
     didn't like Facebook before it was cool ;)

    I'd also like a Google/apple login. It might not be better, but means less accounts required
  • ElfNeedsFood
    ElfNeedsFood Posts: 944 Critical Contributor
    I think Google and Apple accounts are actually very different from one another.  With Google and Facebook, you are the product, with Apple, you are at least theoretically the customer, as they're not ad-driven.
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    Lars said:
    Kinesia said:
    The problem with smaller companies implementing their own logins is that they are far far less secure and prone to being hacked.

    You are better off google or FB controlling all your logins with good security but deliberately giving up some privacy to them then you are having 100 different small companies that at least one will be hacked which will lead to them getting into all your others accounts and having all your information too.
    Stop using the same password for all your accounts, or get yourself a password manager.
    I do, but I have to do "tech support" for family members and sure I set it up for them too, but what about people who don't know better who are a much higher percentage of people than are here?
  • Kinesia
    Kinesia Posts: 1,621 Chairperson of the Boards
    More big scale options, yes!

    D3go rolling their own? No.

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