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OAuth exists and can be used to confirm someone's identity by linking their Google account.


To be fair, I wouldn't want my google account linked to my dating profile. Aggregating services has risks too.


Maybe secondary google account.


Yea, but then what I have to upload my passport through a service linked to that secondary. It's not really tenable.


Linking a Google account doesn't confirm your identity, though. It just confirms that you created a Google account with a particular name.


A Google account does nothing to prove identity




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