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		snprbob86 on June 19, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's Internet identity monopoly The market share of Facebook's identity system is troubling to many folks, not the least of which is Google. OpenID has proven to be too damn complicated. Mortals can't understand it. Mozilla's Account Manager seems like an awesome solution: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/04/account-manager-coming-to-f... It seems to me that Google, with it's popular browser and web services, is ideally positioned to popularize an account manager protocol. And with the heated competition with Facebook, they've got just the right motivations.

Joeboy on June 19, 2011 [–]

> OpenID has proven to be too damn complicated. Mortals can't understand it.

I think it's more that mortals see no reason to bother understanding it. It's conceivable that lulzsec etc might help change that.

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