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Use Kbin at your own risk. Can’t delete account.
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I believe the passwords are stored as hashes, not sent directly to the server, at least I certainly hope so.
They're sent directly to the server and stored as hashes. There's nothing stopping someone from logging the plaintext password, or removing the hash mechanism, though. Make sure to follow best practices and use a unique password on every website.
Oh jeeze, I guess the hashing system can't work locally because then we'd know how the hashing works and could crack it, darn.
edit: wait no, that's stupid, why couldn't it work this way?
Hashing could happen client-side, but there's not much of a difference. If you're using HTTPS, then all traffic to the server is end-to-end encrypted anyway.
At some point you have to trust the website that you're connecting to, but obviously don't re-use passwords, use a password manager, etc etc