so one month I'll visit a site and register using Google, then come back in the future, often on a different device (but same Google Chrome account and/or other device with the same LastPass vault in) and not see any saved credentials in the password-safe, and then have-to guess if I registered using Google or manual registration, and 50% of the time I'm wrong and I end up with two separate accounts on the same site (one from my earlier Google sign-in, then this new one from manual registration).Īnd even then, I don't know which Google Account I used with delegated authentication. Sign-in with Google), however if a site offers both their own registration form and delegated authentication then none of my password managers (not Chrome, not LastPass, nor Apple Ke圜hain) will remember the fact I used Sign in with Google at all). Most of the time I'll register for a site using their own registration system, so I have a username and password stored in my Google Chrome Password Manager and/or LastPass and/or Apple Ke圜hain.īut sometimes I'll register for a site using delegated authentication (i.e.

For example, the StackOverflow Network:.

Other sites do let you use both delegated auth and/or their own user registration system to access the same user account.

Some sites let you use either delegated authentication or their own user registration system, but don't let you use both 'Sign in with Google' and their own login form to access the same, single account. For example, Tinder (until very recently) only let you register and login using only Facebook:.Lots of other sites use delegated authentication and don't have their own username and password box, instead they'll have a big fat 'Sign in with Google' button, and/or 'Sign in with Facebook', 'Sign in with Apple' (if you're lucky), and others: For example, 90% of sites on the world-wide-web have likely have the usual login form.

Lots of sites have their own user registration systems and require you to login with a good ol' fashioned Username and Password, which password managers today handle (mostly) fine:

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