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Re:Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1 by lmm on Tuesday January 04, 2022 @11:40PM (#29805188)
> I am still struggling to understand what immediate and painful need users have with trusting Apple, Facebook, Google etc with their identity.

It's not so immediate until you get banned, but they've all been gradually stepping up their politicised banwaves. And there's always the concern about what happens when one of them goes the way of Yahoo.

> If people had some issue with this then users would simply not use OAuth and default to creating an account for each service they use.

Which has huge practical headaches, to the point that OAuth being the least-bad option doesn't say a lot.

Re:Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1 by ShamelessC on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @07:35AM (#29808188)
What's to stop e.g. Google from creating a blacklist of these public identities again?
Re:Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1 by lmm on Wednesday January 05, 2022 @09:34PM (#29818443)
Defaults and ease for site operators matter. Google could publish a blacklist but it would be opt-in, and if one blacklist starts being unreasonable then site operators can easily switch to another.
Re:Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1 by ShamelessC on Thursday January 06, 2022 @01:16AM (#29820097)
What's to stop Google from creating and using an internal blacklist - not for publishing.
Re:Real Problems That Web3 Solves, Part 1 by lmm on Thursday January 06, 2022 @03:10AM (#29820737)
Google can blacklist you from Google, but they wouldn't control your login to other sites the way they currently do with OAuth.