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Flat illustration of a person approving a request on a phone marked Google, which hands a small token card to a separate app

What is 'Sign in with Google'? And why it's often safer

Lesson 4 of who are you: when you tap 'Sign in with Google', the app never sees your Google password. What OAuth hands over instead, and why it means one less thing to leak.

Sam Ortega · 1h ago · 4 min