just to get it out of the way: yes, i know i can use a spam email/phone number. yes, i know i can opt out of promotional emails/texts. that doesn’t make it any less frustrating. i don’t need a growing list of empty accounts for websites i only spend an hour (or less) browsing through. don’t even get me started on restaurants that ask for your phone number when you scan their QR code…
One of the cool ideas of “web3” is that your accounts are in the browser, not the sites. So you would have cryptographic keys that would act as your account across Web sites.
I wish the idea would gain traction beyond just cryptocurrency projects/dapps.
Then that facilitates tracking and fingerprinting with the same account being used everywhere? Or I understand it wrong
You would be able to choose if you share that information. You can use separate keys for separate sites if you want. I’m not really sure how this idea would make the current situation any worse.
If anything, it’s less PII than you would normally use to create accounts.
OK then that’s like passkeys it seems?
Sounds a little too “one point of failure” for me
Like everyone reusing their password everywhere? Or like passkeys? Or SSO? meh