# MitID 11 Hacker News commenters recommended MitID and 21 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 4 of 13 months. **Verdict:** Danish national digital ID for logging in to banks and public services and verifying identity without uploading documents; critics mainly cite outages and centralization. ## Why people recommend it - Log in to many banks and services (2 comments): "how many other countries can you log in to your bank, student loan, and local municipality with the same sso" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49963795)) "MitID is just chefs kiss how many other countries can you log in to your bank" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49971157)) - Verifies official services, reduces spoofing (2 comments): "Any service implementing MitID auth can verify through signatures that they're connecting to the official service." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411744)) "MitID, for all it's centralization flaws, solved that by only being valid under the mitid.dk domain." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179497)) - Quick and convenient without documents (2 comments): "painless and faster than most places without having to upload a single document" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180939)) "I'd argue the centralized handling of the CPR is actually quite convenient" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179628)) - Easy to use, better than alternatives (2 comments): "MitID is an insanely superior to anything I've ever tried" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47180076)) "It is not perfect but it is fairly easy for everybody." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47774762)) ## What people warn about - Frequent outages, single point of failure (4 comments): "MitID is down quite frequently (now once a month ish, but in the first few years every week or so)" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47188269)) "I assumed it would use pki / cryptographic signing instead of something that can be down" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47201001)) "let's not learn from that incident and wait until is offline for like 2 weeks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179297)) - Centralized design raises concerns (3 comments): "I really dislike MitID and the Danish centralised world of (very good) public services that come with it." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179324)) "the blast radius of a single authentication system is the entire country" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179815)) "Never understood the logic for these to be centralised / online." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179243)) - Controlled by banks, monopoly concerns (3 comments): "MitID is great. It was developed and is still largely operated by the banking sector though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49964044)) "happy monopolistic receiver of this constant and unending stream of taxpayer money" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179409)) "unholy alliance of Nets (a Danish payment provider) and Danish banks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47179326)) - Blocks alternative and custom phones (2 comments): "MitID flipped a switch one day and started enforcing Play Integrity. It became impossible to activate MitID on a GOS phone." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47499159)) "No alternative phone platforms are supported including open source Android." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47646749)) ## Alternatives hackers recommend - [BankID](https://hackerapproved.com/p/bankid.md): 25 recommend - [EU Digital Identity Wallet](https://hackerapproved.com/p/eu-digital-identity-wallet.md): 13 recommend - [DigiD](https://hackerapproved.com/p/digid.md): 11 recommend - [Login.gov](https://hackerapproved.com/p/login-gov.md): 8 recommend - [AusweisApp](https://hackerapproved.com/p/ausweisapp.md): 7 recommend ## Where to get it - [Visit the official site](https://www.mitid.dk/) ## Cite as Hacker Approved, "MitID", https://hackerapproved.com/p/mitid/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).