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OAuth 2 a simple two step process:

1) Redirect the user 2) Do a POST request to acquire an access token

How is that a pain?

And to be pedantic, there's a third step:

3) When you make an authenticated API call, send the access token along with the request, and make sure you're using HTTPS.

The HTTPS part is important to give a bunch of the security guarantees than OAuth 1 gives you with plain HTTP and some complicated crypto dancing around.

The problem with OAuth1 was that the complicated crypto dancing around was exactly that, complicated. Making sure you're using HTTPS is hardly a big ask for developers on either the client or the server and frankly is probably a much better idea given most of these services are more likely than not sending some form of private data.

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