Apologies I don't understand your first paragraph. I'm preferring my password manager because it doesn't track me. It's offline and local.
Microsoft might be an enterprise security company. But they are clearly all about tracking and targeting their users too. The two things are not mutually exclusive.
Re: first point, I don’t see how E2EZe sync of keychains exposes you to targeted advertising. My understanding of the systems is that they use a single encrypted DB that does not expose either the sites, usernames, or passwords to the provider. I’d welcome correction if you know otherwise.
Re: Microsoft, I suppose there’s no harm in being maximally suspicious. But I have some knowledge of their systems and Google’s and Microsoft does not have , for instance, a single user profile that joins interests and infers demographic data like Google does. I expect the same is true for Apple.
My concern is that of relying on one of these vendors for managing the passkeys. And their knowledge of which sites I have accounts with. And my suspicion you'll have an extremely hard time migrating devices and vendors.
I've no internal knowledge of MS systems but the fact that they make it hard to use their operating system without an online account and you can't opt out of all telemetry and the fact it's default opt-in for all telemetry leads me to be extremely suspicious of them. I'm not saying they're any worse than Google or Apple.
I’m confused about know they know which sites you have passkeys for. To the best of my knowledge, neither Apple’s nor Google’s password managers expose that to those companies.
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.
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.
Microsoft might be an enterprise security company. But they are clearly all about tracking and targeting their users too. The two things are not mutually exclusive.