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Ben Adida
@benadida.com

An idea can take a while (and different people) to break through. 15y ago at Mozilla, we built BrowserID, a protocol to let users prove ownership of an email address to make logins easier. We failed. 15y later, Google releases essentially the same thing: developer.chrome.com/blog/email-v...

developer.chrome.comTest the Email Verification Protocol with an origin trial  |  Blog  |  Chrome for DevelopersTest the Email Verification Protocol with the origin trial available from Chrome 150.

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Sam Goto
@sgo.to

Was there a difference between BrowserID and Persona? I use them interchangeably, but maybe in missing some nuance?

Ben Adida
@benadida.com

Same thing. Persona is the marketing name once we started talking about it more broadly. At one point we talked about the verified email protocol, too.

Ben Adida
@benadida.com

Congrats to the team at Google that made it happen! They even kept the privacy features we deeply cared about. This is clearly the way that federated logins should work.

Sam Goto
@sgo.to

Any chance you can up vote this mozilla standards position and try to help us find some allyship? github.com/mozilla/stan... @keithamus.social anything else I could do to provide more information/clarification on this proposal?

github.comEmail Verification Protocol · Issue #1316 · mozilla/standards-positionsSpecification title Email Verification Protocol Specification or proposal URL (if available) No response Explainer URL (if available) https://github.com/WICG/email-verification-protocol Proposal au...