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by nguyenkims 7y ago
Article author and SimpleLogin creator here. Surprised and happy that my small rant at Facebook got so much attention from HN! I wanted to give a bit of context on this article, the story is a bit long though and there was no TLDR. Here it
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by nguyenkims 7y ago
I’m not sure to follow your points. The technology is based on oauth2/openid standard which would allow developers to switch quite easily. The business model is subscription based which is pretty standard. Sending email is not just abo
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by nguyenkims 7y ago
> The pricing model of this business means there’s a likely 50/50 chance of it closing in ~12 months because not enough customers choose the paid option. I think we went too far from the initial point. Nevertheless the cost of such
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by nguyenkims 7y ago
Actually saying that it's easy to implement your own authentication system is more dangerous, especially to people who haven't worked long enough on the topic. The article also mentioned MFA and WebAuthn that not all people are f
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by nguyenkims 7y ago
Could you elaborate more please?
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You shouldn't create your own authentication system(simplelogin.io)
5 points by nguyenkims 7y ago|8 comments
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by nguyenkims 7y ago
Maker here. Having worked in an online advertising company before, I know that a common denominator to match users between different datasets is user email. So to protect our privacy, it's better to have different email addresses for e
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Show HN: I made a tool to protect your email inbox(simplelogin.io)
7 points by nguyenkims 7y ago|3 comments
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If you care about user privacy, do NOT use Facebook JavaScript SDK(dev.to)
17 points by nguyenkims 7y ago|0 comments
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There are better alternatives to Password Manager(dev.to)
2 points by nguyenkims 7y ago|0 comments
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by nguyenkims 7y ago
This button allows Google to know the fact that I'm currently on this specific website. If more and more websites implement this button, Google will have access to my complete browsing history! IMO a website must ask for a permission
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Python Logging: An In-Depth Tutorial(dev.to)
2 points by nguyenkims 7y ago|0 comments