There are benefits & drawbacks; it does greatly improve security, but Google & Facebook get data on what services you use. It would be nice to have a privacy-fo

There are benefits & drawbacks; it does greatly improve security, but Google & Facebook get data on what services you use. It would be nice to have a privacy-focused nonprofit identity provider, but it's very hard to build up that network - both in users, who won't sign up unless sites accept it, and in sites, who won't accept it until there are users. Microsoft (disclaimer: I work there, but not on this product) is trying to get a decentralized identity thing off the ground[0]. It uses the blockchain, so I was pretty skeptical at first but it's actually pretty well-though-out (including the "unhappy path" where users are unable to identify themselves after losing a key or whatever). [0] https://www.microsoft.com/ownyouridentity https://www.microsoft.com/ownyouridentity