It pains my heart what Adam Kiciński -the deceiver; had done.
Right in the middle of Fakebook blowout.
Wow just Wow! Congratulations to you for destroying our place our community.

We don't have any trust left for you!
-Unbelievable!!

And that's what is wrong with how we use our computer technology or the internet. Everything has to be dumbed down so that no one has to think anymore. I know I know, exaggeration and all. But think about this and let me ask you one question.

Why is it so hard to make a new account for a site when we you can basically log in to anything automatically? Especially when every browser nowadays can log you in anywhere you need to. But no, we need websites now, that do who knows what with our private data just to log into a site we find "cool". And with that we basically infiltrate our own privacy just because we are so damn lazy. I actually call this insane.

Get thee behind me, Facebook.

The power of Christ, Compels you!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRYSuoNBdgg

Thy Demon's name was Mark Zuckerberg and into the bowels of facebook did he lurch watching, Draining the life force of all, Even the fallen angels that were close to him!

The Book of the Head, chapter 3 verse 2 (Lol like Thief)

I worked briefly for a computer company (no relation to facebook) but while i worked there i learned some interesting things about technology in general. Considering how cheap information is to store now, there is literally no reason not to store everything.

When working on a database and told to 'delete' something, instead of actually deleting it, you just marked it as 'deleted'. I didn't see the point (and still don't) however it is easy to realize with that small revelation that a site you are using, or JS scripts that are working in the background, they will tag everything you are doing if they can.

Note there is a Facebook JS running when you come to GoG. If you are logged in, they will mark that down and remember it, time/date, and following a record you can backtrace everything someone was doing, as well as keeping track of all messages you ever sent/received, or what you upvoted/downvoted, viewed or the like.

There's multiple reasons i mark Google and Facebook as UNTRUSTED with NoScript.

Because not all people are the same, I'll answer your questions drawing from my own experience. I personally (as I mentioned on my previous post) login via Google to academia.edu, a site that hosts academic papers, articles e.t.c, but in which one needs to login to download anything. Because I generally don't login to Academia all that often (only when I need to download a paper - which is mainly in the beginning when I do research to write my uni papers, and then only every few days - and then promptly log out), I prefer to login via Google because all I want to do is download the paper and get out. That is I don't want to invest in the service - I just want to get some stuff from there and then leave. Theoretically I could have created an account even though I'm not going to be invested in the site, but given that it asks for my name and surname (other than the obligatory password and email fields), I might as well login via Google where I've put a fake name and surname. And another reason I don't want to create accounts for services I don't see myself getting invested in is that I have enough accounts already to various places, and I don't feel like juggling another one when I don't feel it's worth it.

Btw, now that I think about it, regarding the point I just said - that I don't create accounts for sites I don't feel I'm going to get invested about - that's probably going to be the case with GOG too - that is the new people coming will probably get the initial free games and then the ocasional freebies, but nothing guarantees they're going to buy anything, because that would mean they'd be investing on the site...

Regarding now the second part of your question, why having to juggle accounts, when one can automatically log in, I personally feel that automatically logging in is less secure that manually doing so (and for the same reason I also haven't saved my credit card number or bought wallet credit here on GOG). You might say "And yet you log into academia with Google!" (given that as I just saw from other posts, if someone hacked my Google account - knock wood! - , they'd get access to academia), but given I'm not invested there, the hacker wouldn't find anything he wouldn't already know from the Google account, and besides, as soon as I'm done with academia, I also log out from the Google account too, if I don't happen to be using it for anything else at that moment (e.g. Google Docs).
So, what I'm saying is that logging into somewhere with a third-party account, isn't necessarily (just) laziness, it also reflects a general reluctance to get invested in the service where the account has to be created. And that's why this action by GOG to add Facebook login button won't, now that I thought about it, guarantee more customers and more sales.

P.S.
Thank you for helping me get some extra insight on the matter by reflecting on my personal experiences.

It gets better.

The timing on this is the stuff of fucking legends :D

What hes trying to say:

Facebook as a universal account login system works, if your account is active and valid. If you close or get banned from facebook your account here stops working, and without the ability to verify you cant even move it to another account.


Loging into any system with another system forces 2 points of failure. Use a unique login tied to secure email system for all accounts, you never know if facebook will get hacked, taken off line or their auth-system gets pwnd.

A third thing to think about, if your facebook is compromised they ahve access to all linked sites/apps and are effectively you online to all login systems while they are in control of your facebook. They have your cyber birthcertificate.

Oh! and during Easter too.
So I guess Kićiński's new BFF Is this guy:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9JfZDJKCQ

Wow. This is really good piece of video. :o

Thank you! In crisis one must find good sources.

I'm not sure what the wishlist is for anymore when the top gun at cdpr does what he wants and goes against gog's core comunity and principals. I know there was a wishlist from some time ago with 2k+ votes against integrating fb into gog.
Now I see this new wishlist for which I voted also:

https://www.gog.com/wishlist/site/remove_facebook_login_option

Well this might surprise you a little bit now, but I actually agree with you. I used to hate creating accounts for sites I knew I wouldn't really use much. That's why I still have created only a dozen accounts or so over the last 15 years.

My main concern is that using facebook, google or any other form of linked account can be misused. Sounds a bit like a conspiracy I know, but imagine they can earn money by snooping around in your account when you are not logged in. It's a simple macro really, or so I believe. And then they have valuable information about you, like what kind of games you like to buy here or even what you say to the community here. And that's one scary thought. And that's just what happened with Cambridge and FB. Also we all know that the internet isn't really secure so if one malicious group of people actually manage to hack google and get access to a whole lot of other sites they open a treasure trove, theoretically for now but who knows what horrors await us in the near future.

Oh well enough with my dark rambling. On the other site maybe it is actually a better way, maybe if giants like google become almost unhackable it could actually be saver to use them to log into anything.

happy easter!

And that's why I'm using Tor (even though it gets crappier with every update).