I’m not in love with Persona because it puts everyone’s eggs in one basket.
I like OpenID because it works like email — choose whichever provider you fancy. If one goes sour or a nicer one pops up, websites don’t have to add support it before you can use it. And, websites can choose to expose nice “sign in with X” buttons instead of making you type in your OpenID address to sign in.
On the other hand, I realize that Mozilla has made big advances in ease-of-use (for users and developers). I just hope those advances turn into an open protocol someday.
P.S. I had a fleeting hope that they were announcing browser extensions (with a fallback to the way it works now). There’s still a risk of sketchy websites phishing for your Persona login.
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All right, clearly I need to read some more docs. I apologize for making unfounded complaints against what seems to be a pretty darn awesome protocol.
I like OpenID because it works like email — choose whichever provider you fancy. If one goes sour or a nicer one pops up, websites don’t have to add support it before you can use it. And, websites can choose to expose nice “sign in with X” buttons instead of making you type in your OpenID address to sign in.
On the other hand, I realize that Mozilla has made big advances in ease-of-use (for users and developers). I just hope those advances turn into an open protocol someday.
P.S. I had a fleeting hope that they were announcing browser extensions (with a fallback to the way it works now). There’s still a risk of sketchy websites phishing for your Persona login.
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All right, clearly I need to read some more docs. I apologize for making unfounded complaints against what seems to be a pretty darn awesome protocol.