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The problem is, where do you store this list? The Web doesn’t have a way to store things except at a particular domain, and that domain will then know everything.

Anyone remember xAuth effort led by Meebo and others? It ran into the same objections for using a centralized domain for the time being even though it was great.




Browsers could implement that part of the UI. Like address autofill.


And until then what do we do?


Cry in our beverages of choice.


I made a bookmarklet that will store a url for you, and sign you in. You can create your own at: https://unicyclic.com/usb


The existing AccountChooser interface, which was Google’s preferred SSO strategy until their recent experiments with zero-click SSO, was hosted at AccountChooser.com by the OpenID folks.




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