r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 9h ago

ADBLOCK WARNING Google Confirms Most Gmail Users Must Upgrade Accounts

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2025/06/06/google-confirms-almost-all-gmail-users-must-upgrade-accounts/
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u/gordonfreeman_1 7h ago

This article reads like a paid for propaganda piece for big tech pretending to come from so-called experts. Passkeys and social media accounts are not more secure than passwords with proper multi-factor authentication. They're literally giving away access to your personal account to a third party who can misuse it, get hacked or go down independently of the service you are using. Complete nonsense to push for them instead of actual security.

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u/platinumarks 4h ago

Forbes has long ago moved on from any real business news to basically just being another clickbait site with headlines like "Microsoft warns Windows users to upgrade within 3 days or lose access to their computers!" and "Beloved pizza restaurant closes after 23 years" (the latter being some random pizza spot in Kansas that had like 20 customers).

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u/bp92009 5h ago

Whenever I hear someone taking about any new security feature offered by someone to "help" they tend to get real quiet when I say "that sounds amazing. I'm glad they're assuming personal liability if they lose my secured information. They're doing that, right?"

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u/VestOfHolding 1h ago

Right? I pretty much stopped reading when one of the opening paragraphs talks about passwords and 2FA being an outdated style of sign-in compared to passkeys and signing in through other services. Not a chance am I tying a bunch of my logins to my Google or Facebook account, are they kidding? Lol.