WetFish is concerned about enabling third-party login services (e.g., Google, Facebook) on their Discourse community, worrying that it may allow these companies to track users on the site. pfaffman reassured that enabling these services only notifies the companies of a login, but does not grant them access to track user activity on the site (unless analytics are installed). WetFish clarified their concern about potential trackers being placed on the site, and is considering allowing third-party logins for their users, despite not using them personally.
I am VERY new to discourse and even running a community, but it seems like this platform will make it pretty straight forward (thanks!)
My question is, if I enable logging in with third party services like Google, Facebook etc. will said companies get access to track users on the site? I am personally trying to “de-google” my life and have recently left all META platforms so I am partly concerned about forcing these option on to the uses of the site, by simply enabling them
They will necessarily know that you logged in there. It will not let them track what users do there (unless they have analytics, perhaps?).
If you’re trying to “de-google” your life, then logging in with Google isn’t going to be part of that.
Ok thanks - I was worried that enabling a script (?) for third party log ins, would also allow them to place trackers to measure what the user and other users were doing on the site
Personally I don’t have Facebook, and I never log in using Google, but I am considering allowing it for my users, if it does not track the rest of the community too