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Google, Twitter, Yahoo ... Sure. But just Facebook? This is trouble waiting to happen. Is Facebook any different than those others? Google, Twitter, and Yaho
by T-hawk 15y ago
Google, Twitter, Yahoo ... Sure. But just Facebook? This is trouble waiting to happen.
Is Facebook any different than those others? Google, Twitter, and Yahoo also all want to slurp up all personal user data that they can collect, and represent a single-point-of-failure for a spam detection false positive or account compromisation.
- drivebyacct2 15y agoI think you missed the point. If I can use any OpenID provider I can use my Google, Twitter, Yahoo (but NOT Facebook accounts, very intentionally [it used to be an identity provider but they removed it when they introduced Connect]). But more importantly, if it's generic OpenID/BrowserID, I can truly own my identity. As long as Facebook continues to get their proprietary tentacles in everything, they continue to own my identity and make me indebted to their stewardship. If it's my http://firstname.lastname.com http://firstname.lastname.com OpenID identity, I will always own and control it, even if Zuckerberg goes off the deep end and tracks me even when I'm not logged in and shares these details with non-Facebook sites, etc.