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Most websites that are adding social login buttons also keep their own registration/authentication setup. I think by adding social login buttons you also increase attack surface on your website, no matter how good third party security is.

My point is that you shouldn't bother spending any time rolling your own registration / authentication step.

Do you think that using 3rd party auth in lieu of your own auth decreases security?

Right, instead we should cut our potential userbase in half to promote facebook. That's very realistic.

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