Light-Weight Identity for the Web Using Browser Sync and Push

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This is just a rough idea triggered by an observation on how browsers are adapting push notifications to be more user-friendly. See this: https://www.mobiloud.com/blog/google-web-push-notification-p...

We users trust our browsers a lot already. And they've been good stewards so far (such as end-to-end encryption of sync data). This proposal in meant to leverage browser sync and push to replace social logins such as Google, Facebook etc.

> If you signed up via Brave, you won't be able to claim that account via Firefox.

I think you might be underestimating the importance of this. I understand push notification servers are maintained by each browser vendor separately. Perhaps browsers should allow the user to route their push notifications to another browser's endpoint?

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