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Re: Amazon Announces Login with Amazon

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Post by Turing_Machine »

kmfrk wrote: post #15

The more the merrier. I only feel comfortable using my Twitter log-in, and I don't have any privacy reservations with Amazon either.

Yes. Amazon itself is undoubtedly data mining your purchase history, but at least they're not spewing your personal info to every random Serfville/PirateWars "games" that one of your friends signs up for (yes, I know that you can turn most of that off, and I have; most people don't).

Everything I've heard and experienced indicates that Amazon is pretty tight with customer information. Certainly you don't get any personal information on customers when you sell ebooks through the Kindle store. Apple is also pretty good about that.

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Post by DEinspanjer »

jaynos wrote: post #21
walls wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> "why would someone want to log in with Amazon"? > There's no social network attached to your Amazon account I think you answered your own question.

This. I avoid accidentally posting some garbage to my facebook wall. I'll finally start using "Log on with" if I can use Amazon.

But might you now have to put up with Amazon targeting even more ads and recommended products to you based on the various sites you've logged into using their service? :/

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Post by Anonazon »

300bps wrote: post #45
hemancuso wrote: post #7

I was shocked to discover this is the canonical URL & domain for the Amazon press releases. After I clicked the link and saw the URL I initially thought this was some bizarre phishing scheme. That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. I have trouble taking Twitter seriously as an OAuth provider [bias much?]. I think there are many US…

>That being said, I think this is a great idea. I don't love the Facebook OAuth flow and the amount of access most apps ask for. You bring up a perfect point from a user's perspective and I agree with you. The challenge for Amazon is that there are two competing interests: 1. Users who don't want their entire life to be open to developers 2. Developers that want as much info as possible on the users Facebook favors g…

If you have any doubts about which customer Amazon is more interested in, just take a look at this new AWS service and the APIs

http://techcrunch.com/2013/05/29/amazon-web-services-launche...

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Post by EGreg »

Amazon is all about e-commerce, and their partners are reporting a 40% adoption rate for new signups? That sounds way higher than facebook's oauth ... if this continues, Amazon could be an awesome platform to build a business on! They also have a credit system now -- and inventory!

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Post by walls »

DEinspanjer wrote: post #63
jaynos wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This. I avoid accidentally posting some garbage to my facebook wall. I'll finally start using "Log on with" if I can use Amazon.

But might you now have to put up with Amazon targeting even more ads and recommended products to you based on the various sites you've logged into using their service? :/

So your complaint is that the ads you see will be more relevant to your interests? Really?

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Post by shmerl »

bitskits wrote: post #33
soapdog wrote: post #24

I'd rather use Mozilla Persona based login systems than OAuth based ones. From both a user and a developer point of view, Persona is a very refreshing approach to identity instead of OAuth. For those wanting to know more about Persona, check out https://login.persona.org/about also since Persona is from Mozilla, you can see all the code and development and you know that privacy and user safety are number one priority…

I'm having trouble finding sites that use Persona as a login option. Does anyone have any examples? Trovebox seems to have a demo site up, but I was not able to actually log in to my account.

https://diaspora-project.org
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