you can still use a yubikey or even a password manager like keepassxc with passkeys, no need for any google/apple or even secure enclave.

not anymore

The main benefit is since it is locally installed, it is harder for proton's server to access your encrypted data by serving you malicious JS. A malicious desktop app/update could be served too, but that may be trickier.

Just because you can't stop all the leaks in your plumbing doesn't mean you shouldn't fix the ones you can.

Unfortunately, its not clear if masks actually stop facial recognition. I think it helps, but not probably not as well as it did before covid.

Depending on what you're doing, Local LLM can help a bit. Like if i want a recipe for an apple pie i could use LLaMA-2 to find out even without an internet connection.

Not saying its a replacement for a search engine, i just think its worth mentioning.

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Hey, I'm currently stretched pretty thin on projects so it will be quite some time before i'm able to port it, however I appreciate the interest. If you or anyone you know is willing to port it, i would appreciate help.

I was partly inspiried by this extension for chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/keyboard-privacy/aoeboeflhhnobfjkafamelopfeojdohk

However I am not sure if it is open source and i don't think its maintained anymore. It is a good starting point regardless.

Thanks, will look into it