I believe you'll also need bluetooth enabled on both devices. At least you do for those "scan this QR code displayed on your computer to authenticate using the passkey on your phone" feature, which this seems analogous to. Bluetooth is used to ensure that the two devices are actually physically co-located.

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hellojesus an hour ago | parent | next [-]

My desktop doesn't have Bluetooth. Does this mean I'd be doomed even if I had a compatible mobile device?

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2ndorderthought an hour ago | parent | next [-]

We might need to redo this whole Internet thing because this is insanity.

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ai-x an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

In a free market, the content provider is free to put whatever guardrails they feel appropriate. Loginwall, Paywall, CaptchaWall.

If you don't like that provider, you are free to pick another.

	▲	Eisenstein 6 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		1. Free markets do not exist 2. If free markets did exist they would not conform to the theory that people are using when they think of what free markets are, since people do behave rationally, power dynamics are real, and no consumer can have all of the information needed to make rational decisions even if that information were available 3. The market is providing solutions to its own failures without fixing the underlying failures because it is more profitable this way. Is buying something from a company that mitigates a problem created by the same company actually a free market, or is it just extraction?

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g-b-r an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

In passkeys the bluetooth is used for the actual authentication protocol...