Things really have improved, according to a new Dashlane study, and yet we’re sure that many of the sites you use all the time have yet to get the memo about passkeys.

Dashlane’s latest report about passkeys doesn’t offer fresh insights about why adoption of this account-security upgrade remains so uneven, but it does draw out two selfish reasons for sites to deploy it: either they’re afraid of a sign-in snafu costing them a single sale, or they fear a compromised login will cost them a customer’s money and then all of that person’s future business. In fewer words: Greed clarifies


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