Admin of https://kglitch.social, an experimental Kbin instance.
Recently I was doing some Azure integration work, with OAuth, Teams and Outlook. At one point I noticed that logging in with a MS account causes my browser to do ~10 redirects between different services while downloading over 30 MB of Javascript and thought āHuh, this looks like decades of technical debt. Either MS devs are waaay smarter than me or this is a pile of garbageā. I guess both could be true.
Not only that, they create a āshadowā profile of you even if you donāt have any meta accounts at all.
https://www.newsweek.com/facebook-tracking-you-even-if-you-dont-have-account-888699
Move now, beat the rush.