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You are ten years too late. The original OpenID did exactly this, and quite a few sites (especially tech focussed sites) let you sign in with it. Except then al
by lucaspiller 9y ago
You are ten years too late. The original OpenID did exactly this, and quite a few sites (especially tech focussed sites) let you sign in with it. Except then along came Google and Facebook with their proprietary login systems, and everyone jumped ship to those as they offered access to profiles rather than just a domain and possibly email address.
- dboreham 9y agoWe first worked in this problem at Netscape just after the AOL acquisition in 1998. It turns out to be impossible because: show me the money. Something we figured out within a few weeks back then.
- cat199 9y agoWhich is precisely why DNS and SMTP have failed miserably.
- garfij 9y agoPlease elaborate on how DNS has failed? It seems to me that everyone uses DNS all the time and is an essential component of the Internet as we know it, but you and I may have differing notions of failure.
- mike-cardwell 9y agoI assume he was being sarcastic
- jamespo 9y agoAnyone would think the internet has become more closed in recent years or something
- StavrosK 9y ago> You are ten years too late. As in, what I want has been working for ten years? I'm obviously not late at all, since websites still won't let me delegate my auth.
- tinus_hn 9y agoNot just the data but also using Facebook or Google accounts means your users are much more likely to be real people instead of spam bots.