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OAuth is easy in 2023. The problem is that OAuth does essentially nothing of interest by itself. It's a way to pass scoped access tokens.

That's it. That's the end of the spec.

If you want to do anything with those tokens, you need to implement against other APIs the provider makes available. Unless all of those APIs are also standardized, it means implementing a bunch of stuff for each integration. And now things are no longer easy.



OAuth is a way to obtain scoped access tokens.

And if you read the article, you would have something of substance to contribute on that topic, whether it is easy or hard or otherwise.




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