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A question about passwords | characters used in them
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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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While most of the time, I remember my password, I know I could just snap and forget it right there at any point. Happened to me not once. And I'm in my 20s. Sometimes when I forget a password, I just start typing and muscle memory kicks in, sometimes it doesn't. I guess our brains are not optimized to store long random strings of characters. You could use a long sentence as your master password or do as I do:
Come up with a way to make up a long seemingly random password from a couple words. Then if/when you forget a password, just remember those words and reconstruct password from them.
I agree. Bitwarden is open source and also provides a pretty good user experience. Now that passkey support is also coming, I like it even more. Currently a premium member. 10€/year isn't alot for a good service.
Yes. Exactly. I don't know why anyone would prefer anything else over Bitwarden if they want a online password manager.
It feels like a lot of sites are taking active measures to block the use is password managers, too. I hate those sites. Why I'm the hell would you do that???
Prairie Centre Credit Union.
After years of complaining, they finally did something about their hopelessly insecure authentication, only to completely bork it.
Bitwarden could open the site, but couldn't push the login info. They prohibited pasting, so I had type everything by hand. And they couldn't even get that prohibition right, because I discovered that I could type a character then CTRL+V to paste, then HOME, DEL.
All of that is written past tense, because it was the last straw. I took my banking elsewhere, despite the fact I now have to drive 2.5 hours if I need to talk to someone in person.
Mainly financial sites, in my experience. I also have problems logging into Mastodon, because if I manually type my user and password I get logged in but if I use Bitwarden or even copy/paste it fails.
But also every site where you type in the user name and then submit and it takes you to enter the password - I use a lot of custom emails to avoid spam so I may not remember my username for a given site, but Bitwarden won't recognize it as a login page (much bigger problem on mobile, which is where I do most of my stuff).
Bitwarden F-Droid repo
https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdroid/
BitWarden seems a little dumber at detecting password update submissions than LastPass. Same with detecting when there's a login field on a page. Really, webdevs should do the most simple-stupid thing and give those fields predictable names like "old_password"/"new_password"/"new_password_retype". No reason to get creative here.
That's about it. I switched out of LastPass for a reason and I'm not going back.