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[-] ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

I would hate that for whatever service that is for,

It’s the provincial governments authentication service for Canadians, if you ever used GCKey it’s essentially the same thing but provincial opposed to federal.

It allows ease of access to things like medical records, tax records, license renewals and such.

Alberta has their own system similar to this.


the only Google service I knowingly use is Youtube

Might I suggest Invidious as an alternative, you can host your own that way only 1 device on your network needs to contact YouTube directly or you can use one that is public.

Mine is accessible to Canadians at https://inv.halstead.host/, prohibited to the rest of the world so rate limiting isn’t a huge issue for me.

this post was submitted on 11 Aug 2026
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