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by ranit8 5299 days ago
> no exposure to identity provider (this is unlike any existing solutions; if you log into a site, your OpenID provide, Facebook, Google, etc. will know which site it was; not with BrowserID!)

Unfortunately that might be what prevents this or http://webid.info/ from getting traction. The big guys wouldn't like losing that data, and OpenID/OAuth already do the job well enough for them.

A comparison WebID/BrowserID can be found here: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/5406/what-are-th...