Mozilla to shutdown persona

[tangor]

Mozilla is abandoning Persona, its attempt at single sign-on, setting a November end-of-life date for the service.

The laudable idea was that instead of an SSO beholden to the likes of Facebook's OAuth, users of persona.org (originally launched as BrowserID) would get similar functionality without the privacy invasion.

[theregister.co.uk...]
Nobody bought into it, so time to cash in chips and try a different game.

[engine]

That's a shame it's being abandoned as I had hopes for that.

[bill]

None of the OAuth ventures really fared well, did they? I liked the idea of a federated authentication that wasn't under the control of FB or Google. I still run my own OpenID services, but there are so few places I can use them.