Comment by 93po
5 days ago
Yeah this article is confusing for me. The one a few days ago was basically saying "this is a slippery slope", which the post today acknowledges, then goes on to say "These passkeys don't give websites an attestation statement at all, and though a site can ask, what comes back is none" as though it invalidates the post a few days ago.
The whole point is that once everyone is accustomed to passkeys, they ARE going to ratchet it up to "you need attestation".
This is the browser wars all over again. Google spent something like 20 years winning the browser wars, and once they felt snug and secure, slowly started eroding users' abilities to control the content they see (making features adblock relies on increasingly ineffective).
At the same time the current authentication horseshit of the internet in 2026 is awful. I routinely spend 3+ minutes trying to log into a site - first it blocks logins because of my VPN, then it requires a password reset, then it requires me to login with new password, but then it needs email verification, but then I don't get the email so I have to click resend, then I type in the verification and then it asks for blah blah blah.
I am grateful that LLMs are going to be doing 95% of my browser usage very soon.
Then multiply that ritual across the dozens of apps and sites you're forced to use a day...
It is genuinely an ordeal.
I also get generic errors trying to check out, not exaggerating, like 25% of the time on anything that isn't amazon. I think Firefox and resisting fingerprinting and VPN together means places really don't want my money. I know fraud prevention etc etc, but I can still be annoyed at the state of the internet.
The cognitive dissonance is deafening. The "current authentication horseshit of the internet in 2026" is entirely because of LLMs.
LLMs work on behalf of users. If you don't want to be included in my AI-assisted shopping search for something, fine, I'll just buy something else.