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Google will now make passkeys the default for personal accounts
(arstechnica.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
While I would agree this sounds more secure, I'm always worried about people getting further locked in to Google's products.
Hopefully this system won't take accounts "hostage" by requiring you use Chrome to log in to them, but it's Google, so...
EDIT: I'm wrong, passkeys are stored per-device and can be shared between devices using an open standard. Here's a video explaining the basics. It addresses my concern at around the 2:50 mark.
Yet another anti-consumer, anti-privacy, "for the sake of children!" Type tactic from Google.
Mozilla is in the process of implementing passkeys in Firefox. This page tracks the status of various implementations of passkeys.
Yeah I've already switched to LibreWolf after seeing the AI bullshit that FF is adding in the name of "spotting fake reviews". My ass. Unfortunately I can't use it at work apparently, the security app we use flagged it because I tried to import passwords from another browser... sigh
CAN I JUST BROWSE THE DAMN INTERNET PLEASE