On Sept 7, the dev said the project would continue with legal representation in place. In the Oct 10 update he says that was based on assurances that “have since turned out to be untrue,” and apologizes for the misleading info.
Did someone scam him?
The trap is they’re pushing passkeys before password managers that make them portable are yet to be mainstream. And that platform lock in may be a motive driving it.
“To login to your account, please use the device assigned to your identity.”
Right now, if someone who doesn’t know about password managers starts using passkeys because of a few popups you just have to follow through to enroll, they’re going to get very confused when they try to login somewhere else. There may be alternative login methods for now, but that may change.
It doesn’t seem all that forced yet, but if we have any idea of how big tech works, that’s where it is going.
Passkeys are great, Big tech aren’t.
I use them with my password manager but I’m cautious on which services and how often i may need to login to them on other devices.
A19 year old with Claude subscription replaced you. Get over it.
I’m not 100% negative about AI for research, but I don’t think you’ve thought this through.
Trakt acquired Showly. I don’t know if the original dev is still involved, but I expect things to change.
https://github.com/trakt/showly