> And besides that, no business has an incentive to make it easier for you to free-ride their service with fake credentials Ah, but they do have an incentive t

> And besides that, no business has an incentive to make it easier for you to free-ride their service with fake credentials Ah, but they do have an incentive to make it easier for you to sign up with legit registration credentials. If the OS was able to store the common fields that describe a person / account and the browser could prompt the user to inject those, HTML5 would only need a few more supported valid input type attributes and only populate them after the user has opted in.