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Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by stevage »

a2128 wrote: post #128
akira2501 wrote: post #58

If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year, "Forgot my password" is my password manager. Personally, I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero. As a result, I store very few accounts overall and checking out as "guest" hasn't been a problem of any sort. There's like 10 critical things that I feel the need to…

For websites I really don't care about, I just get a disposable email on dropmail, and copy paste the email address to both the email and password fields to save time. Surprisingly, some websites check this and won't allow you to set your password to your email, but removing the last character or adding a 1 at the end works around it.

Problem I find is being sure I "really don't care about it". Sometimes sites become more useful than I expect, etc etc.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by Narushia »

akira2501 wrote: post #58

If I need to login to your site less than once or twice a year, "Forgot my password" is my password manager. Personally, I feel that the utility of me working to keep and maintain that information in a database for high availability is essentially zero. As a result, I store very few accounts overall and checking out as "guest" hasn't been a problem of any sort. There's like 10 critical things that I feel the need to…

I don’t think there’s really any “maintaining” to be done when I sign in to a new service that I won’t be using often. Complete the sign-in page → Bitwarden asks me if I want to save the credentials → click yes. That’s it. I can auto-fill that the next time I log in.

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by Prickle »

morkalork wrote: post #55

Shit, just looking at the replies, there's a solid case for password managers. No normal human is going to memorize 100+ unique passwords meeting various complexity requirements. It almost makes shaming people for re-using passwords look like you're out of touch. Of course they're following bad practices, how could they not be?!

Yep. Password managers are quickly becoming a required utility for modern services. And oh how painful it would be to lose that. I memorize maybe 10~20 passwords. And I sometimes mix them up in my head as I type them too.

It's why we always laugh at anyone who says to "not reuse passwords".

Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by dang »

Onavo wrote: post #16
bombcar wrote: post #3

The elites don’t want you to know this but the accounts on the Internet are free you can take them home I have 458 accounts.

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Re: Ask HN: I have 176 logins/accounts. How many do you have?

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Post by altacc »

About 500, after a clear up.

I'm currently shopping around for a new password manager but that's proving to be a frustrating search. Bitwarden scrambled my master password so that I lost access, not just once but twice (password was saved in another password manager, so definitely correct). Lastpass has 'issues'. Dashlane web app only gives me an error message. 1Password feels clunky but may be what I end up going with. Needs to be usable & shareable by tech-averse spouse & children as well, so hosting my own isn't really an option.

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