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		melissamiranda on Feb 17, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I would rather drink piss like Bear Grylls than lo... Open ID tried and failed. What I see now is more developers creating their own registration auth. Even if they lose on signup conversions vs. 1-click Fb or Twitter, they avoid duplicate account mixups.

18pfsmt on Feb 17, 2012 | [–]

Most of the discussions on HN surrounding privacy and FB usually have several mentions of a creation of a 2nd acct (as you've seen), but also mention Mozilla's BrowserID project: https://browserid.org/

smsm42 on Feb 17, 2012 | [–]

Why OpenID failed? I see more and more services - including ones I use literally every day - using it.

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