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Right, but that's like Gmail coming out and people complaining about another proprietary product locking people in. There are two issues with the current comments:

1. Absolutely nobody currently uses WebAuthn. I'm extremely excited about the popularization, which, unfortunately, requires big players to get behind it.

2. The comments feel very "oh my God this car I'm driving is heading towards the edge of the cliff even faster". Don't use Google, they're unreliable and evil. While I'm very excited about Passkeys popularizing WebAuthn, I don't think anyone should ever rely on Google for authentication, so just don't use them and use Bitwarden instead, if/when it supports Passkeys.

A vendor coming up with an implementation of a great standard isn't the problem, the fact that people use it is the problem.




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