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How is picking the wrong OpenID provider any different than entering an incorrect email and password, because you have multiple email addresses and you couldn't remember which one you used?

Were you aware that you can associate multiple OpenIDs with one account at StackOverflow?

Do you ever use a computer that does not store your passwords for you?

Would a standard OpenID-remembering feature in your browser help change your mind?

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Every site that decides they want to support OpenID now becomes yet ANOTHER option to login with.

I also prefer email because I have a set of spam/anonymous addresses I can use to test sites that I don't trust quite yet with my real information. Having spam/anonymous OpenID accounts would be a real mess to manage.

StackOverflow lets me pick a max of two OpenIDs. But why not instead let me specify an infinite number of verified email addresses to login with instead?

I'm not sure if one of the goals of OpenID is to show that I'm the same user across multiple sites. That's a feature I'm sometimes interested in with certain sites and sometimes absolutely not interested in with others.

You last point is exactly why I avoid OpenID authentication.

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