Tuesday 12 January 2016
Mozilla has announced that it’s shutting down its social login platform Persona – frankly, because people just don’t use it – and that represents a pretty sad day for the Web. The organization launched the alternative to Facebook and Twitter social logins, aka removing the need to remember lots of passwords but sharing your every last movement with the world’s most data-hungry platforms, back in 2012. The open, decentralized protocol has been available as an API for developers to implement across desktop and mobile, while individuals could set up their own account, but nobody really bothered. That’s in spite of the fact that…
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