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This should really be taught in schools - not how oauth works but that you should be careful who you grant what access to what data.


Yes, but we in the web dev world also need to find a way to fix the UX of these auth flows, because right now most of the population isn't in school. Even if we added data safety to the curriculum tomorrow in every school in the world, it would be decades before a majority of digital citizens learned data safety practices in a classroom.


I completely agree with you, but if we want to support apps to use APIs we have to have some sort of access flow to do so! I'm not sure what a better UX for those flow would look like.




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