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Re:OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use by jrockway on Saturday September 26, 2009 @12:39AM (#845002)
You have to sign up for some completely unrelated service to receive the "validate your email" link. So OpenID is nothing new in this respect; you have always had to have an unrelated service to sign up for websites.

The point now is that every site you visit doesn't have to have your password and email.

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Re:OpenID: Now more powerful and easier to use by wvenable on Saturday September 26, 2009 @12:39PM (#845667)
A lot of Web 2.0 sites don't even bother validating your email anymore -- such as hackernews, reddit, etc. They have a username and password that isn't connected to anything. That works for me.

And I don't have to signup for some completely unrelated service to receive an email -- everybody already has email.

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