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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.

Sam Goto

@sgo.to

16 Aug

Glad to hear that you approve! Obvious inspiration from persona for sure!

Ben Adida

@benadida.com

16 Aug

oh I didn't notice the actual inspiration from Persona, cool to hear that there is a connection there :)

Sam Goto

@sgo.to

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

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Ben Adida

@benadida.com

16 Aug

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.