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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.

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.

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Sam Goto

@sgo.to

15 Sept

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...

done :)

Much appreciated!! @keithamus.social ? Anything I could do to get this looked at again?

Sam Goto

@sgo.to

15 Sept

I can probably do a better job at answering these questions here: github.com/WICG/email-v... If a face to face VC would help, I'd be happy to jump on a call to answer questions on a higher bandwidth channel!

github.comLack of a problem statement · Issue #27 · WICG/email-verificationThe explainer immediately jumps into the concepts around this feature, but what I find lacking is any words toward what problems web developers encounter today, what solutions they implement, and w...