Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to use default browsers

Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by oreilles on Friday September 23, 2022 @05:37PM (#32957421)

Keychain is opt-in, users choose wether they want to use it or not when configuring their iPhone for the first time.

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by Wowfunhappy on Friday September 23, 2022 @05:49PM (#32957522)

Not in my experience. I never turn it on (because I want to use Bitwarden), but Safari always offers to save passwords unless I manually disable it.

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Re:Mozilla claims Apple, Google and Microsoft force users to... by JimDabell on Saturday September 24, 2022 @01:40AM (#32959980)

There are three different things here:

- The keychain is an essential part of macOS and iOS; if an application wants to securely save data then that is the interface it uses. This is not optional because a huge proportion of applications would break if it were removed.

- iCloud Keychain is the feature of iCloud that syncs your keychain to iCloud. iCloud itself is opt-in, and this particular feature of iCloud is opt-in as well, I think, or at the very least optional even if you use iCloud.

- Safari has a built-in password manager, like every other browser these days. This saves to the keychain, whether that’s synced or not.

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