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Google pushing Gmail users to transition to passkeys using biometric data (archive.ph)
submitted 1 day ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Google warns “passwords are not only painful to maintain, but are also more prone to phishing and often leaked through data breaches.” And that’s the real issue. “It’s important to use tools that automatically secure your account and protect you from scams,” Google tells users, and that means upgrading account security now.

Google says “we want to move beyond passwords altogether, while keeping sign-ins as easy as possible.” That includes social sign ins, but mainly it means passkeys. “Passkeys are phishing-resistant and can log you in simply with the method you use to unlock your device (like your fingerprint or face ID) — no password required.”

This is just one of their excuses, to keep their users inside google's walled-garden

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[–] Kyrgizion@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They also push google oauth. If you're logging in to over a dozen sites with your google account, it becomes that much harder or at least more annoying to curate all of those. They're banking on people choosing convenience over security - and they'll be right.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 3 points 1 day ago

With passkeys you no longer need to use oauth at all since creating and using passkeys can be done more easily than creating a new password or using oauth. If you’re using Google services of course you’ll still log in with a Google account, but on example.com you can just create a new account with a passkey and never worry about oauth or passwords at all.