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judge2020

> What I don't like bout Google doing this is that the big providers use this to tether and lock you in to their platform.

This is the concern, but exporting passkeys to other ecosystems seems like it'll come with time, even if via third-party tools or like how browsers will prompt you to "import your <passwords|passkeys>" upon setup.

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Call me a cynic but I'm convinced that won't be happening anytime before critical mass adoption of these companies' own solutions, and either defeated acceptance of this new norm or abject incomprehension by whomever remains.

"All your base are belong to us"

Yeah I fail to see why google would be incentivized to provide this functionality.

EU provides incentive.

To which law are you referring?

I think they are referring to the EU's aggressive data surveillance and zero expectation of privacy to government organizations. While the EU has been very pro customer to business privacy they are vehemently against anything that lets anyone hid anything them the government.

I’m a cynic too, but I’ll also be optimistic about published statements. Goggle said they’re committed to supporting 3rd party passkeys when they announced android support. Apple, not so much though. I am hoping Google just does the right thing and makes this table stakes.

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