It’s partly stupidity, but the main reason is online services want to identify their users, and they want to prevent users from making thousands of accounts to abuse their services. I understand the latter, but there is a better way than forcing people to use a non secure, faulty auth method.
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It’s partly stupidity, but the main reason is online services want to identify their users, and they want to prevent users from making thousands of accounts to abuse their services. I understand the latter, but there is a better way than forcing people to use a non secure, faulty auth method.