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I want the best of de-coupling and coupling of services, where you only need one identity to manage a variety of services, but each service is isolated from one
by mooman219 5y ago
I want the best of de-coupling and coupling of services, where you only need one identity to manage a variety of services, but each service is isolated from one another. This comes in two forms: identity and repercussions. In terms of identity, I want the ability to present myself differently depending on the service their using. I don't want my real name in say a game lobby where harassment happens more regularly. In terms of repercussions, I don't want a TOS violation on one connected service to influence the other services. I hear a lot horror stories of where malicious intent from a 3rd party on some service causes the closure of all coupled services and you're left dry.
I think Microsoft does a reasonable job at this. If you violate the TOS of Office 365, you may lose access to that, but the rest of your account stays usable.
- vxNsr 5y agoYup, I lost access to bing rewards on my main account but I can still use it for everything else. (Including searching, I just don’t get points for it).
- yellow_lead 5y agoThat's a good take. I agree with presentation, and I think Google fixed this on YouTube to some extent. However, they're failing at the repercussions aspect.
- zdragnar 5y agoDidn't Yahoo have something vaguely like this? I don't remember the details too well, just some vague memory of Crockford bemoaning how well Yahoo services were segregated from each other compared to Google.
- zinekeller 5y agoAt least the old pre-Verizon, non-Japanese Yahoo. Japanese Yahoo is very integrated 'till today (banned at Auctions? There's a big chance of your account being shuttered down.) and Verizon's Yahoo has gone down to mail and news (okay, there's Yahoo Finanace (the products, not their newsroom), but I don't think that most people are using it now, and Yahoo Answers being gone is one of the most prominent examples).