Do not want: "This application will be able to read your private email addresses."

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When you use GitHub as an OAuth identity provider, it shares your email address.

Don't do that!

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If the OAuth client requests an email address then it should receive:

{ GitHub user number }-{ OAuth client ID }-{ random salt }@oauth-email-address.github.io`

You do not need to set up forwarding for this email address. The OAuth client should ask separately if it wants an email address.

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[fulldecent]

As an example of why disclosing email addresses is bad, see this best practice implemented by GitHub itself.

GitHub, Inc. has created an account with Google so that they can manage their own OAuth client.

This Google Account's email address is [email protected]. You can find this yourself by viewing the source of this page https://github.com/sessions/social/google/initiate?return_to=

Notice how GitHub themselves use a special email address [email protected] to access Google and seemingly they do not use that email address for anything else?

This is because GitHub recognizes that once you use that email address and others share it then that email is compromised.

Likewise, as currently implemented, you should never use GitHub to login to other accounts.

This is, of course, assuming you use separate email addresses to login to each service you use. You do use separate email addresses, right?!

[MindAdventureTeam]

This ought be the default behavior