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Please get rid of passwords. Thanks.

• bigiain 10y ago
  I don't know who's downvoting you - but this is a really important idea. As a new curious user of your new startup's website, I don't give a damn about being "secure". I've probably given you a fake name and a stupid password just so I can poke around and see if your site sucks any less than the other 5 or 6 new sites desperately craving my attention this morning. If I can get in and look around without having to lie about my personal details - you're _way_ more likely to get a"proper password" and my real contact details if/when I decide I'm actually gonna add you the the list of "stuff I use" instead of "crap I signed up for once and never went back again" or "site I used a few times but none of my friends signed up so I stopped going there".
  • bschwindHN 10y ago
    Probably getting downvoted because these comments are common and don't make any suggestions on how to get rid of passwords.
• kuschku 10y ago
  OpenID was a solution for that, but it got turned into this horrible thing that is OAuth2. Mozilla Persona could have been another solution – just log in with your browser account – but that got killed. And in the current web, I’m not sure something like that will ever happen, as the web is moving even more away from universal standards, and towards more and more closed walled gardens.