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Andrei Dascalu

For credentials, sure. But social login doesn't come with simply credentials storage but with an agreement to allow monitoring online behaviour to the extent that a user needs to put in place a lot of serious safeguards to protect their data and prevent traces, doubly so if they have social media presence.
Without social media profile, some generic data can be leaked, but it's much easier to prevent it even with basic modern browser enhancements.
Password storages, I trust (so far) which is why I prefer the password storages + generated password rather than social login.

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Stephane Paul

I would go password less for 2021, people are just dumb with passwords.

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Andrei Dascalu • Edited

Unless you mean biometrics, I don't see how that goes. Social login means the password is handled by Facebook. But it's still a password just somewhere else, incidentally with a bigger footprint, a bigger target both for hacking and phishing. I have nothing against providing social login as an alternative, just not a replacement for user password (with 2fa, maybe).
If there's a breach on their side, you can't do much except remove that provider.

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Shahid Shaikh

Totally agreed.