Because we've seen that as soon as it exists, it quickly becomes required for ridiculous things that shouldn't require any kind of authentication, either by data-hungry companies that want to better exploit their users, or by control-hungry governments.

Until that is solved, I'd argue that the benefits are not worth the costs.

If you actually stop and consider the culture and ethos surrounding the advent and spreading of the Internet, it's not surprising at all.

And if you stop and consider how corporations have been abusing that sort of thing every chance they got it is even less surprising.

Can't wait for them to abuse a non-anonymized internet.

I think I'll pass on that one. It is bad enough as it is.

Uh... it existed in South Korea at some point. And what happened next was exactly what everyone predicted: mass privacy data breach.