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Which is why it's important to have alternatives, yes. You don't want to have to only trust Facebook, you want to have it as a choice. The OpenID "dream": Users
by scrollaway 8y ago
Which is why it's important to have alternatives, yes. You don't want to have to only trust Facebook, you want to have it as a choice. The OpenID "dream": Users choose between different authentication services based on their needs.
I like Google auth because I pay for Google. I trust them because they're a lot better at security than statistically almost every other service on the web. I would trust Facebook, but I don't want them to know about my web presence as you pointed out. And to keep those services in check, you have to have alternatives.
The Payment request API is a good example of what we should be seeing for authentication. Secure delegation without lockin.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago> Users choose between different authentication services based on their needs Network effects inherently promote centralization. Third-party authentication exhibits network effects. Furthermore, given nobody pays for this service, we not only have a bias towards centralization but also incumbency. Individually weak but diversified is a more robust model than strong but centralized. That was the fundamental insight of capitalism and of the Internet. Third party authentication promotes the latter.