[ilchalpenl]

> Let's assume that they were all Passkeys.

Lets assume I put all the effort to explain.

I will give you a better example.

- Lets say you have a google account with pixel phone

- You are using it and added 1000 passkeys

- All are synced to your Google account

- Destroy and Get a new phone. Login to your google account with recovery code.

- All your passkeys are in your phone again.

There are plans in fidoalliance.org to make it portable. Pretty sure you are still not going to move to it.

[sandmn]

It works fine until Google suddenly decides that your new device is not you and asks you to confirm login from previous device...

[account42]

Or until Google decides that you did a wrongthink and bans your account, including locking you out of your old phone.

[ilchalpenl]

See.. the sad thing for doomsayers like you is that if even 1% of users were affected then there would be mass exodus from Gmail. It does not.

Yes, you don't use Gmail so it does not matter. You may be don't know. And often even average Joe some how has a oldphone or iPad that has oldgmail account there or logged into wife's phone or phone based SMS whatever.

it is ok to hate passkeys or google or love only self-hosted but let others do what they want.

I have been user of solokeys (since the first one) - only opensource hardware keys. works for me...

But if you go to the local highstreet then there are tons of people doing this screenrepair etc just to recover the account. Average Joe doesnot mind paying for that. Even will give the repair guy full password to transfer all data from old to new phone.