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mozilla / persona-yahoo-bridge

A ProxyIdP service for bridging major IdPs who lack support for the BrowserID protocol.
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it's common to attach yahoo alias to different accounts due to PIN workflow #251

Open edwindotcom opened 11 years ago

edwindotcom commented 11 years ago

description: i haven't fully fleshed this out, but it's easy to drag the yahoo alias to attach to different primary email addresses because you have to do it for each browser. Just pointing out that if you have two devices with a two different primaries, you end up re-attaching the yahoo alias often, which can be confusion.

device A

  1. sign in with A@yahoo.com
  2. attach a secondary to this with alias@yahoo.com via the pin flow

deviceB

  1. sign in with B@yahoo.com
  2. now, try to sign in with alias@yahoo.com, you use the PIN flow to sign in

actual: alias@yahoo.com is now attached to b@yahoo.com. each time you have to reauth via pin on a different device, that alias gets re-attached to a different accoutn.

I don't think this is a blocker but some users may experience this negative side affect of signing in for each browser/device

callahad commented 11 years ago

This seems like the beginning of a broader UX discussion about what a Persona account means.