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elehack on June 19, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Facebook's Internet identity monopoly

A rejection that's also just flat wrong in some places. Sure, the first OpenID-enabled site you visit asks you to set up an account on a 3rd-party service. Once you've done that, all subsequent OpenID sites require no new accounts. So it's a one-time cost.

unconed on June 20, 2011 [–]

The difference between theory and practice is that in theory it works, in practice it doesn't. Even the early adopters stopped using OpenID.

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