[albertgoeswoof]

You can - but it's an arms race at that point.

The question is - is this really the way we should be communicating online? Why can't we set up an anonymous account on a service?

The next step to all of this is an Oauth provider that's built around privacy. Imagine if you could sign in to apps with something other than facebook or google. "Sign In with <privacy provider>" would be awesome. It's all technically possible today, and Mozilla nearly did it with persona, but gave up for some reason.

If anyone wants to fund this, for a mere 10-20 million USD I think it would be possible to create the service and market it to enough devs and end users to get traction.

[gmac]

I think you're describing Sign in with Apple[1]? Though I can see there'd be value in having this be standalone.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT210318

[blackrock]

I think if you can secure $20 million USD dollars in VC or Angel funding, there might be more profitable ideas to work on.

[albertgoeswoof]

Becoming one of the main identity providers online would be hugely profitable. You could easily add on payments (a la paypal) and other services that generate enourmous revenues

[blackrock]

Interesting. This just gave me a possibly incredible idea.