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magic_haze on May 17, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Social login buttons aren't worth it

This is doubly true when it comes to Mozilla's Persona. I implicitly trust my email provider more than any other site's login system (at least, the ones that email password resets), so why not delegate to that all the time instead of insisting on a different username and password?

stavros on May 17, 2013 [–]

That's why I love Persona, I wish it were more widely used (and by more big names).

I actually got a little apprehensive about the security of the bridge, and wrote my own IdP you can use for your own domain: https://www.persowna.net/

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