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Google Adopts, Forks OpenID 1.0

Posted by timothy on from the complicationism dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Right on the heels of Microsoft's adoption of the OpenID protocol by announcing their intention to enable OpenID authentication against all Live IDs, Google has announced their intention to join the growing list of OpenID authentication providers. Except it turns out they're using their own version of OpenID that is incompatible with everyone else. It seems that Google will be using their own 'improved' version of OpenID (based upon research and user feedback of the OpenID system) which isn't backwards compatible with OpenID 1.0/2.0, in hopes of improving end-user experience at the cost of protocol compatibility and complexity."

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  1. And so it begins by l0ungeb0y · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Google takes their clout and tells the collective community just where they can stick it and how far.

    From previous experience, it can only be assumed that they will continue with this approach until they adopt the same way of thinking and business practices of other large corporations with too many heads and too much power. It's not their fault, they can't help but to do evil when they get this big.

    Hopefully, it will bite them faster and harder than it did Microsoft.

    I already keep google's presence as close to nill as I can in my life and pretty much limited it to gmail for a public internet mail address and their apple safari embedded search bar. I refuse to use firefox as my personal browser since it clandestinely pings to a google address without my consent, (you can verify this with the tamper data utility... just turn it on and wait, firefox will ping google) which I find to be rather shitty and makes me rather distrusting of the amount of trust 3rd parties give google. I will have no problem abandoning these guys if they go the route of the monopolists.

    My attitude toward google has been a couple stiff middle fingers for the last couple years. This just reinforces my belief that their "Do no evil" spiel is as good as the paper it was written on.

  2. Re:How to judge what's going on by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    5: Has google taken me as a consultant yet? If yes then what they are doing is AOK! if no then their actions are horrible and should be stopped.

  3. Never thought I'd say this... by cloakable · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    But yea, fuck you Google. Fuck you, and the fork you rode in on.

    --
    No tyrant thrives when every subject says no.