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Passkeys absolutely make sense from a security (and in theory also UX) POV. Handling logins for dozens of services is either very insecure (reuse), has even worse vendor lock in (federated ID), or has pretty bad UX (password manager).

In practice, unfortunately the UX gains are not realized because interoperability is unsolved, because vendors have little motivation to solve it and eliminate the lock in.



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