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Re: Ask HN: How do password managers make things better?

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I wasn't sure about password managers for a long time, until I read this article by Troy Hunt "Humans are Bad at URLs and Fonts Don’t Matter": https://www.troyhunt.com/humans-are-bad-at-urls-and-fonts-do... - if you give this a skim read you may think this has nothing to do with password managers, but read it to the end. I won't spoil it, but I will say that everything suddenly clicked in. Password managers solve so…

Exactly - it's not just convenience. Without a password manager how the hell can you actually keep unique passwords that are completely unrelated on all your sites? You can't. For me password manager is all about practicality.

I only need unique passwords on a couple sites, things like gmail and icloud, and that’s easy to remember. Don’t care about random websites, they can steal my password. It doesn’t matter, I’ll just make a new account.

Re: Ask HN: How do password managers make things better?

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One side benefit of using a password manager is that your internet usage is truly portable.

This year, I’ve had to work with different laptops (linux and Macs) and switch my browser up a few times.

I’m so glad I was already moving away from iOS’s built in password manager before my old mbp died and I had to replace it with a borrowed linux laptop which got replaced with my wife’s decade old linux laptop, which finally got replaced with an M1 air.

I can’t imagine the world of pain if only ios knew my passwords. The above hops would have been impossible!

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