facebook, i agree, makes sense for an assertion of your public, real-name identity. there will always be sites and situations where i do not want my real name a

facebook, i agree, makes sense for an assertion of your public, real-name identity. there will always be sites and situations where i do not want my real name associated with what i do there. google auth is just one provider of the same identity as browserID-- an email login. so, imo, browserID is a strict improvement, in that it is more seamless than google auth in regular usage (leveraging the browser as the user agent), and works with more providers.