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Article author and SimpleLogin creator here. Surprised and happy that my small rant at Facebook got so much attention from HN! I wanted to give a bit of context on this article, th…

I’m not sure to follow your points. The technology is based on oauth2/openid standard which would allow developers to switch quite easily. The business model is subscription based …

> The pricing model of this business means there’s a likely 50/50 chance of it closing in ~12 months because not enough customers choose the paid option. I think we went too far fr…

Actually saying that it's easy to implement your own authentication system is more dangerous, especially to people who haven't worked long enough on the topic. The article also men…

Could you elaborate more please?

Maker here. Having worked in an online advertising company before, I know that a common denominator to match users between different datasets is user email. So to protect our priva…

This button allows Google to know the fact that I'm currently on this specific website. If more and more websites implement this button, Google will have access to my complete brow…