I don’t mind at all not having them saved in the cloud because in an emergency I can just remote into my home pc and pull my password that way
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The biggest downside of saving passwords in a browser is it’s in a browser rather than a dedicated application. That’s less secure for minor reasons, but also seems just less convenient as someone who needs passwords to log in to things that aren’t in a browser somewhat regularly.
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Storing them locally or rather just in a single place without remote backups makes you pretty vulnerable to just random life bullshit suddenly locking you out of everything. Like if it’s on your hard drive only that hard drive, what happens when that disk fails suddenly?
Using a password manager is delegating the responsibility of keeping regular backups and planning for disasters to someone else. Yeah that requires some level of faith, but that’s sort of their whole thing. I don’t think that highly of my company, but the worst days (or weeks) at work was always about data recovery. We would go to great lengths to recover customer data and to ensure it is recoverable when we have any sort of liability, and we’re not even a business who specializes in that sort of thing. If I worked at a password manager company, leaving customer passwords unrecoverable would be a literal nightmare I would do everything in my power to ensure did not happen in reality.
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This is a cartoon from my childhood. I always thought that the character on the left was a granny, rather than a boy wearing a hat
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The cat is so me
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edd my beloved
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the thing with a lot of password managers (for me at least) is Money. I’m not about to spend money for something that I can pretty easily do myself, and backuping a file on a different harddrive like every month or two isnt that bad (i dont make enough new accounts that making a backup more often would really be that much of a time save, resetting passwords isnt too hard)
Sometimes disasters happen, but its so rare and can be easily mitigated with just a couple backups that it doesn’t really seem like a service worth paying for
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I use free Bitwarden and it’s literally fine
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yeah the difference is I ~never need to do this
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There is nothing I have ever tried to use it for that I could not. It has never prompted me to pay to use a feature. It’s the rare piece of software that seems to do exactly what I want it to do, and not be annoying about not paying them or for not using Feature No One Asked For Or Wanted.
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the fun part is i have three copies of everything important because my laptop has one, my pc has one, and my phone has one
anything I haven’t needed to access from all three devices isn’t truly important
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I use the same password for everything because I don’t really need a password manager, if you hack into my accounts you can have fun…paying my student loans? or have fun with my bank account that I’ll get back.
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ebook reader internet browser
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There’s a guy on Nintendo Loop who gets his Discord and Instagram hacked literally like once every few months
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That seems like a skill issue, considering I think the most common way to get hacked is to scan a QR code
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If you wanna play mafia on Discord maybe your passwords should be different
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Given his Instagram and Discord got hacked at the same time I’m pretty sure no?
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oh
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There was a girl in middle school whose Instagram password was her first name, all lowercase.
Ask me how I know.
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