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The sign-in with yahoo button is a lot more accessible, but on a personal level, I am strongly against it. The internet tends to coalesce around the most widely
by maxklein 18y ago
The sign-in with yahoo button is a lot more accessible, but on a personal level, I am strongly against it. The internet tends to coalesce around the most widely used method, leading to one site becoming disproportionately larger than all the others.
So if we have this "Sign-in with yahoo" button, soon everywhere will have 3-4 sign in methods, likely to be Yahoo, Google, Microsoft and maybe Facebook. So we basically hand over everyone on the internet to these 4 gigantic cooporations? What do you think they will use all those user accounts for? Safeguard them?
If a mum uses the internet to visit her sewing website, this person should not be forced to hand over their personal information to huge companies, who live off advertising!
OpenID is a boon for big companies, and a nightmare for the openness and freedom of the web. Your login information for all sites should be personal - it should be on your physical keychain, and not owned by Yahoo or Microsoft or anyone else.
- simonw 18y agoBut that's the beauty of OpenID - it allows you to keep your identity with the thing that you trust. One of the future developments I'm most excited about with respect to OpenID is the ability to run your OpenID server on your mobile phone. Phones can already run web servers, and with IPv6 they'll be able to have public facing direct internet addresses. Voila, your online identity lives in your pocket.
- maxklein 18y agoI wish you guys would see sense. OpenID is a geeks dream; conceptually, it's very difficult for normal people to grasp. WHY did open Id have to use a URL? What is wrong with me typing maximusklein@gmail.com into my 'openid' field, and then it authenticates at gmail.com using the unique identifier maximusklein? What's the big difference? One is complicated as hell conceptually, and the other is very easy to understand.
- simonw 18y agoThe OpenID community is working on exactly that: http://eaut.org/ http://eaut.org/
- ricree 18y agoWhy is typing something like maximusklein.gmail.com and logging in with google more complicated than maximusklein@gmail.com. People keep saying over and over again that open ID is too hard for average users, but I just don't see any evidence that this is the case.
- maxklein 18y agoBecause I know clearly what one is, but I am unsure what the other one is. To me, the URL is a webpage. And it's not clear to me how a webpage is going to log me into another webpage if I am a user. Users don't see URLs as URLs, they see them as pages, like on a newspaper. So OpenID is based on a concept that alien to users.