Sure, but the man on the Clapham omnibus is going to use Apple's, or whatever's, that's what I don't like - it seems set up to serve incumbents rather than to stand on technical merit.

There's precedent for only supporting certain walled gardens, too: Google MFA sign-in supports Yubikeys et al. only if used in Chrome; in Firefox for example you get the prompt and everything, it just stubbornly refuses to accept it on touch.

> but the man on the Clapham omnibus is going to use Apple's, or whatever's, that's what I don't like

You don't like that people will use the tool that's most convenient to them? I'm not sure I understand your argument.

Right now pretty much all people except us geeks either:

- Re-use the same password everywhere; or

- Use their OS's password manager; or

- Use their browser's password manager.

How is this any worse?

> Google MFA sign-in supports Yubikeys et al. only if used in Chrome; in Firefox for example you get the prompt and everything, it just stubbornly refuses to accept it on touch.

Ok you made me look because I was sure I had been doing this every morning; Myth busted - Logged in to Google using a Yubikey via Firefox (Windows 11) no problems at all.