If it is easier to do something, more websites will do it. Passkeys make it easier to make new logins, so more websites will do it. Just like seatbelts make people drive more dangerously.
If more websites require logins, they can track you more easily, simple as that. It has nothing to do with the engineering aspects of passkeys, and everything to do with the fact that technology which makes logins easier will encourage more login-based services.
You need to step away from the engineering details and look at things sociologically.
Doesn’t Apple Pay make it easier to not log in to websites (by getting rid of their desire to save payment details or addresses to get through later checkouts faster)? I just don’t really see some grand pro-login plan implied by Apple’s actions.
You are right. Of course, I am not talking about a conscious plan by board members or employees, but the general emergent trend inherent to this type of technology. I did not mean to imply conscious action as we know it.
If more websites require logins, they can track you more easily, simple as that. It has nothing to do with the engineering aspects of passkeys, and everything to do with the fact that technology which makes logins easier will encourage more login-based services.
You need to step away from the engineering details and look at things sociologically.