authentication and validation system by myself.
Why is this necessary at all?
Your personal data, login, email, password, etc., are stored on the servers of the game store, so I don’t need to worry about securing this data and other legal stuff.
Most gamers already have an account in one or more popular game stores, so they don’t need to register one more.
You also don’t need to worry about this if there’s no account to speak of.
Connecting my account to your site gives you access to large amounts of personal information, even if you’re not using it. And I’m not okay with that.
YUART@feddit.org 17 hours ago
I need the user to have an account so I know who rated what games and who requested what recommendations. To do that, I need to build a system on my webpage for users to be able create a new account, so I need to store their credentials, which I don’t want to do. Or I can use an already existing account from the game store.
I don’t think that’s true. Or at least this is true if you allow that. When you try to log in with your itch.io account onthe Gamescovery page, they will tell you what data will be accessible to me. See the following screenshot as example:
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