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0 pointsdonmcronald3y ago0 comments

Even if it isn't total lock-in, OIDC is definitely encouraging consolidation and users have been trained to accept the idea of letting Google or Apple manage their logins.

Identity is next. I think they'll start tying your Google, Apple, etc. account back to your real world ID. It'll be opt-in and they'll give some kind of sucker's reward for it like reduced captchas. It'll be sold to the public with the insinuation the "good guys" use verified IDs and the "bad guys" don't.

> I’m gonna say I told you so in a few years. Nobody will care.

Yep. Auth, identity, etc. are going to get sucked up by big tech and even after it happens we'll have people on HN telling us how awesome it is that we don't have any control over our digital lives because Google, Apple, etc. are "protecting" us. Case in point, the iOS app store.

Passwordless tied back to biometrics is their endgame IMO.

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userbinator3y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_of_the_beast#Futurist_vie...

(I'm not even religious, but stuff like that really makes me wonder if Big Tech is taking inspiration from there, like they seem to be doing with 1984 and other dystopian fiction.)

chickenfeed3y ago

I think Musk is hoping that Twitter can be this. But he should have edged in slowly to make Twitter Auth a trustable product. It now feels like a mess and has less authenticity.

The UK government were going to delegate their age ID system to the porn industry.

Can't say I have ever used Google, Microsoft or Apple ID beyond their own gardens it fills me with ick.

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