If you want to have freedom then you have to accept that a free life is a messy life.
I don't support centralized internet ID systems for the same reasons I don't support a national identity card: it's a central point of control that will inevitably be used by the government against its citizens and corporations for profiling and targeting all of us.
As much as it may appeal to the tech mind to have things in nice little boxes this is a terrible and dangerous idea.
That's why, in theory, I like OpenID. It's decentralized, anyone can be a provider, and I still choose when logging into your site which provider you should use to validate my credentials.
I don't support centralized internet ID systems for the same reasons I don't support a national identity card: it's a central point of control that will inevitably be used by the government against its citizens and corporations for profiling and targeting all of us.
As much as it may appeal to the tech mind to have things in nice little boxes this is a terrible and dangerous idea.