Article discussing the push for passkeys as an alternative to passwords, including numerous problems associated with passkeys like big companies agenda, complicated proprietary implementations, vendor lock-in requirements and dependency on smartphones, dubious value for ordinary users, and misplaced purpose and value, hype and security, lax IT practices and constant private data leaks, psychological reasons why modern Web and email are interactive and phishing-prone due to profit-driven design, wrongness of clickable links, practice of information-only communication, severe implications for privacy and freedom in so-called modern solutions, some other observations, and more
All true. But meanwhile there are also users like me that have to refrain from exclaiming “why the FUCK does this website restrict me to 20 character passwords” out loud.
I use a password manager. Having my password be 1 glyph or 200 has the same usability to me.