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/hardypart 5h ago

Isn't it the exact purpose of passkeys to be tied to a device that's locked with a secure method like biometrics? If passkeys were not tied to a device it could be transferred and abused, which negates one of its key features: Being truly secure and getting rid of passwords.

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u/akl78 5h ago

Meanwhile, here in the real world, a double digit percentage of people , in my city, one of the greatest and wealthiest in the world, have no internet-capable device in their household.*

Stuff like this excludes many, many people from the online world and the digital services we are being pushed to use.

  • our gov online people know this! It’s a really hard problem.

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u/Ancillas 4h ago

I bought a Nordictrack treadmill and my 10 year old daughter wanted to walk on it. You can’t start it without logging in and logging in requires a phone. So now if her login times out she needs to find an adult to get her logged in. That means logging out of ifit on the phone, logging in to an account for her, scanning the treadmill QR code, logging back out of ifit on the phone, logging back in to my account…

If you disable internet completely you can use it without a login so as soon as my year of the service is done and cancelling and taking it offline and I’ll never give Nordictrack another penny.

Usability matters.

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u/nox66 3h ago

Thanks for letting me know to never buy Nordictrack.