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So this seems to affect… a lot of services. I'm surprised it's not getting more coverage. Unless this message appears when it doesn't need to, a massive number of prominent services rely on this, such as StackOverflow (if you attach it to a google account obv.).

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Just to clarify: this is OpenID 2.0, not OAuth 2.0. OpenID never really went anywhere with consumers, most of whom had no idea what their openID URL was (I think mine had an 8 in it). HN got rid of it years ago.

Stack Overflow has already addressed this issue: http://meta.stackexchange.com/q/244367/61654.

Oh I see, it comes up for me because I specifically use OpenID through my domain. That's just my problem then.

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