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…my personal info!

I’m complaining about every site you come to requiring registration. Dudes, it’s 2010 — there’s OpenID. Let me just log in by clicking on “Google” icon or by entering my self-hosted OpenID or something.

I also hate Google’s implementation not letting me uncheck “Google Contacts” or similar when logging in with OpenID. I don’t want those a**holes getting all my contacts just so I can comment — that is, despite being faster, even worse than taking a few extra minutes to register and share just some of my info. I don’t want them having all my info. Not only that; Google actually thinks it’s a good idea they don’t provide those checkboxes.

Then there’s those guys who use Facebook Connect. This means I share all my Facebook contacts and a bunch of extra data  with whoever owns the site I’m trying to log in. Seriously? Facebook, please — all I wanted during the last few years is an option to uncheck all (and I mean all) the data I don’t want to share with a particular app. Including list of my contacts, Facebook! It’s none of their business, Facebook.

Webmasters are horrible. Tech blogs are horrible. However, identity providers are worse.

Sh&t.;

Tags: blogging, Facebook, Facebook Connect, Google, Google Data API, Google Federated Login, identity, OpenID, privacy

This entry was posted by Ivan Vučica on Monday, February 15th, 2010 at 6:45 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Personal web site You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.