Hopefully the future of logging in

[andrewducker]

I was going to say "Now, if only they can get Microsoft, Apple, and Google on board", but actually, it works perfectly well without their browser integration, so let's just hope that websites start to pick it up...

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Comments

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Looks the same as 'log in with google' -- just more generic?

[andrewducker]

Yup - the idea is that it's entirely federated and standardised, so you're not tied to Google, MS, or any other provider.

[andrewducker]

Plus, of course, with the concept of multiple identities built in as standard.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yup, that's what I meant -- not tied to one provider, and multiple IDs. Maybe I'm underwhelmed because I'm just thinking, 'So... this is the way it should have been all along. And...?'

[andrewducker]

And it hasn't been! Because the closest we came was OpenID, and that never took off, because people don't think of URLs as being identifiers.

And now it hopefully will be!