About Apple's new sign-on system, I have feels. Apple seems more scrupulous about privacy than most other big tech companies, so it would be a good thing for Facebook, Google, etc.
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to have competition in this zone from a company that isn't just blatantly rapacious about user data.
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However, I've been using Apple gear for a long time and I have to say their sign-on systems have always been buggy and weak, and sometimes extremely frustrating to deal with.
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Without getting into details right now, I recently wasted almost an entire day dealing with issues around their 2-factor authentication.
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But more importantly, this is yet another big tech company trying to lock you into their system, for one of the most important needs people have on the internet.
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Ultimately it would be much healthier for the web to have a true open source sign-on system, not managed by a big tech company, but working with them to ensure compatibility. I don't have a particular software stack in mind, but there are many being actively developed.
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Replying to @Green_Footballs
I’ve long felt that the ideal OAuth provider is
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@Wikimedia is also an interesting choice.
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