We would all love to eliminate multiple online accounts, and we'd also like to eliminate logins that depend on Google, Facebook and Twitter. We'd also like to eliminate tracking cookies. But we need to be careful that the solution isn't worse than the problem. That's what I fear is the case with the national single sign-on system adopted first by Switzerland and now by Czechia, according to this article. "Users will get a Facebook- or Google-like button with the Czech Ad ID sign-on, all connected to a website that they could use to log in... all connected websites will have information about the browsing history of the anonymous ID which they can use to serve better-targeted ads." It's a short step from single sign-on to closed commercial access, which is why (I believe) that for open online learning we need distributed identity (DID) of some sort.
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