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by acdha 545 days ago
If you’re going to speculate about ulterior motives, fill in the supporting details so people can tell you’re not just promulgating conspiracy theories.
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Its a lot harder to share the passkey for e.g. your Netflix account among friends.
So you think that Netflix has gone to Microsoft to start a multi-year industry-wide standardization process to change how people login because that’s easier than looking at their own log files?

Netflix didn’t crack down on shared passwords when they were growing rapidly but that’s not because they couldn’t.

I don't, but yes; many seriously actually believe this is why the industry is moving to passkeys. It isn't logical, it isn't reasonable, but these are your customers.
I haven't tried--cant you share passkeys stored in your password manager?
Yes, if you're both using the same password manager. But, while you live in Silicon Valley bubbleland, most people don't. The world's most popular password manager is Excel; and sadly it does not support sharing passkeys (or, really, passkeys at all).
By now, wouldn’t the most popular password manager be the one builtin to Chrome, followed by Microsoft and Apple’s?
So that sounds like an argument for better education, not recirculating baseless conspiracy theories.
Baseless? Can you think of a reason why Netflix wouldn't support it for precisely this reason? Their campaign against account sharing is widely publicized. Do you think account sharing is easier or harder under passkeys? Just because it's a conspiracy theory doesn't mean it's false.
It’s baseless because it’s pure speculation without any evidence, or even a coherent argument for why they’d go to so much work for something they already do at much lower cost.
You just hit the share button for the passkey in Apple/Google Passwords/your password manager
That only works if the share target is using the same password manager.

If you asked most people "what password manager do you use" they would give you a blank stare; but sadly, the answer is rarely "I'm not using one" the answer is usually Apple or Chrome or whatever is built in and most convenient.