The problem with the web has been centralization. SSO is centralization.
Yes, but the reason people still use SSO is that security is hard. If a website uses SSO, they don’t need to store any password information. Reuse of tech and keeping the number of sources that have sensitive data small, are good.
Your final sentence is an issue as big as any imagined binary blob yet you present it as no big deal.
Priorities and orders of magnitude. If we can get people to quit instagram and to join pixelfed, I think that’s a relative improvement, even if the google SSO is still not ideal. You are right, SSO with google is not ideal.
Your final sentence is an issue as big as any imagined binary blob yet you present it as no big deal.
The problem with the web has been centralization. SSO is centralization.
SSO can be decentralized, no one is doing it tho
Yes, but the reason people still use SSO is that security is hard. If a website uses SSO, they don’t need to store any password information. Reuse of tech and keeping the number of sources that have sensitive data small, are good.
Priorities and orders of magnitude. If we can get people to quit instagram and to join pixelfed, I think that’s a relative improvement, even if the google SSO is still not ideal. You are right, SSO with google is not ideal.
But it only happens if you choose it.
SSO doesn’t need to be centralized, at least not like how Google is centralized.