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- Now, what on earth is Google Sign-In? Well, we've talked about it before. Instead of you logging into this website, and that website, and the other website, and you remember all these usernames and passwords, it's a type of single sign on. It's really convenient for the user. The idea is, I go to this website, and one of the options is you can sign into me using your Google account, or your Microsoft account, or your Facebook account, or whatever these big account providers are. And rather than having to know all these usernames and passwords for all these little websites, I shouldn't use the term, little, but for all these other websites, I just need to know Google. Now of course, all of these websites have got to support Google Sign-In, but it's really, really popular, of course. Google Sign-In is a type of OAuth 2.0 authentication system. And OAuth, as we'd mentioned before, is the open authentication. We're version two oh. Users can sign in to participating websites using their…

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