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[jsn]

Am I missing something huge, or did Yahoo indeed went to great lengths to make their OpenID *and* OAuth support utterly useless (borderline harmful, in fact) for any purposes related to, eh, identification? It's called "Open *ID*", for Pete's sake. The consumer should be given an unique, recognizable, human readable identification name or URL or something. What they give you instead is a pair of Last name, First name (practically guaranteed to be non-unique, and user-editable anyway), and God-awful random token a few miles long, useless for every practical intent and purpose. No usable nickname, no profile link, no email, nothing. WTF were they thinking? So okay, OpenID was a damn mess to start with, but then they go ahead and implement the new shiny OAuth spec, hooray! Oh wait, here we go again: no nickname, no profile link, and an ugly useless random token. F-ng atrocious.

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[jsn.livejournal.com]

I'm not saying it's malice (in fact, Yahoo is fairly high on my personal "not evil" list), and it sure is either stupidity or some enterprisey bullshit, but (and this part impresses me plenty) it definitely not a lack of effort and dedication.