If you use the same Google account for a bunch of different third party websites, Google gets to associate your activity on those websites to you, giving them more points of data about you. They wouldn’t offer themselves as a login option if they didn’t make money out of it.
Also if you use your Google email for many other services it becomes even harder to ditch Google afterwards.
What do they get that you wouldn’t get from signing up regularly ?
If you use the same Google account for a bunch of different third party websites, Google gets to associate your activity on those websites to you, giving them more points of data about you. They wouldn’t offer themselves as a login option if they didn’t make money out of it.
Also if you use your Google email for many other services it becomes even harder to ditch Google afterwards.
and what does that have to do with the random website that uses it for oauth?
The website doesn’t have to handle the code and security for their own login system, which reduces costs for them too.
right… so it’s not data mining it’s just easier to maintain
somehow op has 46 upvotes for something that’s wrong
Easier to maintain for the website. Data mining for the login partner.
Money.