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Have everything tied to my gmail account? No thanks.
by jiggy2011 13y ago
Have everything tied to my gmail account? No thanks.
- egwor 13y agoThat's not really what I meant. A number of places support openid; we use that for logging in and password management. If something goes wrong we change the password in one place. Gmail is just one provider; as is facebook. I'm sure that there are more. As for your gmail account comment: since most people point their emails to gmail anyway, everything is tied to their gmail account anyway. (e.g. password resets)
- tripzilch 13y agoOh good, I can use Facebook instead of GMail. I guess my privacy is secure, then.
- jiggy2011 13y agoWhenever I sign into something with openID it signs me into all google services on that account, that's a pain in the ass as I have multiple google accounts for different things. If it's separate then at least I can rebind that account to another email address if I choose, such as one I host myself for example. Otherwise if my google account gets closed for whatever reason then I lose all of these other accounts. You can of course use a different provider but you're looking at either using some other internet giant or hosting your own openID crap which I'd rather have to do.
- jeena 13y agoYou can always host your own openID sollution.
- tshtf 13y agoYou can easily run your own openid server: http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995226/Run%20your%20own%20identity%20server http://wiki.openid.net/w/page/12995226/Run%20your%20own%20id...
- johnchristopher 13y agoNot a solution for the thousands that don't have the skills and the time to install and maintain it.
- zeckalpha 13y agoPersona could work as an alternative.