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  • Sep 8, 2026, 4:33 PM

    @rmondello For another example, it used to be common for a website or app to ask for your password for a different site. Of course, I am not going to frame this if it was a good idea, but even now - if an OAuth API is not provided or not sufficient for what a user wants to achieve, acting as the user with their credentials, is literally the only option to make the computer act in the user's favour, but because this is also the way genuinely malicious actors interact with a service, it's easy to lump together all this kind of adversarial behaviour into 'malicious' or 'fraudulent'. And of course, Netflix aren't too happy about user's sharing their password, but I don't think it should be the job of my password manager to protect Netflix' business model.

    And, another thing given the whole Recent Current Event Cycle: I can't backup my 1P vault with Passkeys, so if 1P (or the friend who's family plan I leech off, or the company they work for who provide said plan) suddenly close my account - I'm SOL.

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  • Sep 8, 2026, 4:36 PM

    @rmondello I understand I'm probably asking a lot for you to even read my wall of text (I could probably have summarised this a lot better than I have) and like. Thinking about this can be very draining (trust me this line of thinking is most definitely not helping my burn out), I don't say all this to be a hater or devalue the work done by the people at FIDO, or anywhere - even with its current flaws it's a great option that I do with I could champion more

    but god. I kinda hate the hole we've dug ourself, and I wish we all (ie. everyone who builds software for a company) were willing to be a bit more proactive in trying to prevent that

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