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I have a feeling we might be talking about different things. I'm not talking about password managers, and having never used any password manager that wasn't ope

I have a feeling we might be talking about different things. I'm not talking about password managers, and having never used any password manager that wasn't opensource and offline I'm in no place to comment. What I do know is that at no point do I want these companies in charge or gatekeeping the keys (so to speak) to my kingdom. Their motives aren't ultruistic and are only self serving. In the case of Google certainly you could end up locked out of all your accounts if their AI decides to shut your account down without recourse or a Twitter/HN thread about it.

brookst 4y ago
I think we’re talking about the same thing. There is no gatekeeping of keys. There IS gatekeeping of the services that syncs keys across devices. If one of these companies locks you out of your account for any reason, you don’t lose access to the keys. They are not removed from your devices. You do lose the service that moves them between devices. Anyway, I appreciate you sharing your perspective and I admire your commitment to only use fully open services. Just saying the closed ones may not be as malicious or a usable as you think.