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Comment by stickfigure

One huge problem: Email address != identity.

I should be able to change my email address (and/or email hosting provider) without changing my identity on a bazillion sites around the internet. Facebook got this right from the beginning. Google is sort-of getting this, although the chasm between Google Accounts and Google Apps Accounts makes this really messy.

Really this product should be called BrowserEmailAddress, not BrowserID. It doesn't serve identity.

parent stickfigure 15 years ago

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