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that sounds both a privacy and security nightmare
How so?
unauthorized exfiltration of your user data, including all settings, your email address and possibly your subscriptions.
but probably this could be solved with some agreement dialog.
intransparent and unauthorized modification of arbitrary settings in the origin user
they don't need ot allow that. It just authorizes and would use the username and the tab to keep track of the instances settings. I mean your initial instance would have that but they have that ability to begin with. Anything on the web would be security and privacy risks if not done will. also none of that is very useful unless the person signed up with a main email. again though the fediverse developers have been pretty good at using good practices.