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The feature I most want in a browser is for them to enable client side ssl certificates for password free signin. The UI is actually quite trivial to implement and it would turn the entire internet into a single social network, sidestepping the awfulness [1] of existing solutions like openid-connect. [1] It's awful because it gives a company's entire customer list to google, facebook, etc. That used to be called goodwill and it is/was the lifeblood of bricks and mortar companies.


I believe you are describing what is Webauthn. As more websites adopt this and more devices include things like Touch ID, Face ID, etc… what you want is maybe a few years from being normal




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