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Email is better because you are not locked into using some third party website to log in. You can set up an email server of you own if you wanted to.
by NewHighScore 16y ago
Email is better because you are not locked into using some third party website to log in. You can set up an email server of you own if you wanted to.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoExactly
- meatmanek 16y agoOpenID works great for this too-- you can create your own OpenID provider.
- nuclear_eclipse 16y agoEven better, you can use your domain to delegate privileges to a third party service. Eg, I have my personal domain leetcode.net delegate OpenID authentication to myOpenID.com, but if for some reason I don't like that, or decide to host my own provider, it's as simple as changing my domain's delegation info, and I can continue to use the same OpenID url everywhere.
- far33d 16y agoSure - but that wasn't what he said. He said that requiring facebook makes him think that the website owner shouldn't be trusted with data. Which has nothing to do w/ lock-in on 3rd party websites. It has to do w/ the relative security competence of those who choose to use FB Connect vs. those who choose email.
- mike-cardwell 16y agoWho said anything about security? I would take a "Facebook only" login system to imply that the creator of the website makes bad decisions. I'd prefer to not hand over data to people who make such poor decisions.