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That's ugly, I'm sorry. It's also why I oppose using social authentication with anything. While we have access to our [Facebook, Twitter, Github, Google, Linke
by caseysoftware 7y ago
That's ugly, I'm sorry.
It's also why I oppose using social authentication with anything. While we have access to our [Facebook, Twitter, Github, Google, LinkedIn] account today, what happens if they shut it down? We have no clue of the real consequences and no appeals process. It's the worst of both worlds.
- derangedHorse 7y agoThat’s one of the motivations for the “new” project Tim Berners Lee is working on, Solid. The amount of foresight people working on the web have is crazy. I read an article interviewing Lou Montulli the other day and was amazed to find out how how extensively he thought about the nefarious use of cookies when they were being designed
- meristem 7y agoCan you share the URL for that interview with Montulli, please? Thnx!
- Deebster 7y agoI'm not OP but there is him talking on his blog about cookies: https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reasoning-behind-web-cookies.html https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-reasoning-behind-w... https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party-cookies-could-be.html https://montulli.blogspot.com/2013/05/why-blocking-3rd-party... He doesn't come across as overly prescient there, but there's definitely some of the familiar juggling trade-offs in his design decisions.
- syshum 7y agoFunny because when those same people actually had a chance to stop alot of the privacy violating and non-open things in the web they caved to the pressure from Google, and others to make the Web less open, less private, and less free. Tim Burners Lee was one of those people that caved with HTML5 standard, and several other standards under the W3C