Re:Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
by waspleg on Thursday December 24, 2015 @01:49PM
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Why do you require a sign in/sign up in the first place? My ad blocking is configured to disable all that crap and I don't make accounts unless I really want whatever is behind it (which is exceedingly rare). On the other hand, I'm the only one I know personally who does not have a Facecrook account and when I tell people they're the product they just stare at me with doll eyes. shrug
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Re:Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
by SwellJoe on Thursday December 24, 2015 @01:58PM
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My website has:
- Shopping cart for selling our software and support products.
- Forums for discussing our software. Email notifications are available for users who want to follow threads.
- Ticket tracker for reporting bugs and making support requests about our software. Email notifications are, once again, available for users to follow threads.
- License manager, so that people who have bought our software can get the keys to download the software.
How would you suggest we accomplish those tasks without having a sign-in, at all?
Re:Open Letter to Mozilla: Bring Back Persona
by quanticle on Thursday December 24, 2015 @01:51PM
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An account of some sort is the only way for a website to store state about you, most notably for authentication/permissions. Do you have a better way of, for example, identifying whether I should be allowed to see a private Github repository or not?