MitID
Shares rank 3 of 7 digital IDs by recommenders
Danish national digital ID for logging in to banks and public services and verifying identity without uploading documents; critics mainly cite outages and centralization.
Danish national digital ID for logging in to banks and public services and verifying identity without uploading documents; critics mainly cite outages and centralization.
32 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 11
- criticize it
- 21
- approval share
- 34%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 11 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 0.5 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Log in to many banks and services
“how many other countries can you log in to your bank, student loan, and local municipality with the same sso”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data” “MitID is just chefs kiss how many other countries can you log in to your bank”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data” Verifies official services, reduces spoofing
“Any service implementing MitID auth can verify through signatures that they're connecting to the official service.”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech” “MitID, for all it's centralization flaws, solved that by only being valid under the mitid.dk domain.”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” Quick and convenient without documents
“painless and faster than most places without having to upload a single document”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” “I'd argue the centralized handling of the CPR is actually quite convenient”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” Easy to use, better than alternatives
“MitID is an insanely superior to anything I've ever tried”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” “It is not perfect but it is fairly easy for everybody.”
Comment from 15 Apr 2026 in “Ask HN: Easiest UX for Seniors”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Frequent outages, single point of failure
“MitID is down quite frequently (now once a month ish, but in the first few years every week or so)”
Comment from 28 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” “I assumed it would use pki / cryptographic signing instead of something that can be down”
Comment from 28 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” “let's not learn from that incident and wait until is offline for like 2 weeks”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” - Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting”
Centralized design raises concerns
“I really dislike MitID and the Danish centralised world of (very good) public services that come with it.”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” “the blast radius of a single authentication system is the entire country”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” “Never understood the logic for these to be centralised / online.”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” Controlled by banks, monopoly concerns
“MitID is great. It was developed and is still largely operated by the banking sector though.”
Comment from 5 Oct 2026 in “Denmark data breach exposes 8.8M people's personal data” “happy monopolistic receiver of this constant and unending stream of taxpayer money”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” “unholy alliance of Nets (a Danish payment provider) and Danish banks”
Comment from 27 Feb 2026 in “MitID, Denmarks sole digital ID, has been down for over an hour and counting” Blocks alternative and custom phones
“MitID flipped a switch one day and started enforcing Play Integrity. It became impossible to activate MitID on a GOS phone.”
Comment from 24 Mar 2026 in “GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone without requiring personal information” “No alternative phone platforms are supported including open source Android.”
Comment from 5 Apr 2026 in “German implementation of eIDAS will require an Apple/Google account to function”
Other digital IDs people recommend
The four most recommended other digital IDs, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BankID | 25 | 28 | 47% | 9 | — | — |
| EU Digital Identity Wallet | 13 | 20 | 39% | 8 | — | — |
| MitIDThis page | 11 | 21 | 34% | 4 | — | — |
| DigiD | 11 | 9 | 55% | 7 | — | — |
| Apple Wallet Digital ID | 9 | 12 | 43% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 39 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“MitID is just chefs kiss how many other countries can you log in to your bank”
“MitID is great. It was developed and is still largely operated by the banking sector though.”
“if they are not actively maintaining it there are definitely holes in the system”
“how many other countries can you log in to your bank, student loan, and local municipality with the same sso”
“the questions I am asked to verify that it is me are almost all family related”
“doesn't quite work right with how a lot of apps using it for authentication”
“MitID (danish verison of BankID) doesn't work”
“is an app "protected by" Play Integrity”
“It is not perfect but it is fairly easy for everybody.”
“The MitID design is strange, but in this regard it is well done.”
“No alternative phone platforms are supported including open source Android.”
“MitID flipped a switch one day and started enforcing Play Integrity. It became impossible to activate MitID on a GOS phone.”
“Any service implementing MitID auth can verify through signatures that they're connecting to the official service.”
“How many steps between MitID and a fork that is used to enforce extreme censorship?”
“Most countries already have digital apps to verify identity, like Denmark's MitID”
“I assumed it would use pki / cryptographic signing instead of something that can be down”
“They were down every few weeks for a short while”
“MitID is down quite frequently (now once a month ish, but in the first few years every week or so)”
“we saw downtime every week or so”
“This type of centralisation presents a classic tail risk.”
“iOS app no longer opens after the recent update.”
“painless and faster than most places without having to upload a single document”
“A big part of MitID and similar services is to protect you against fraud.”
“MitID is an insanely superior to anything I've ever tried”
“the blast radius of a single authentication system is the entire country”
“I'd argue the centralized handling of the CPR is actually quite convenient”
“if you use the (bespoke, non-standard) OTP dongle it still does not authenticate itself towards the user”
“MitID, for all it's centralization flaws, solved that by only being valid under the mitid.dk domain.”
“happy monopolistic receiver of this constant and unending stream of taxpayer money”
“these centralized solutions favour the former, and that's why we see this resulting outage”
“unholy alliance of Nets (a Danish payment provider) and Danish banks”
“I really dislike MitID and the Danish centralised world of (very good) public services that come with it.”
“let's not learn from that incident and wait until is offline for like 2 weeks”
“Never understood the logic for these to be centralised / online.”
“The rush to go all digital is coming back to bite them”
“that's the one thing you don't want to be down and yet it's down”
“my phone is degoogled for MitID”
“Surprisingly there is solutions that work just fine.”
“But no, they should hold both the CA and the Key in escrow.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.