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[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The reason I say browser password manager is two main reasons:

  1. It is absolutely critical that it checks the domain to prevent phishing.
  2. People already have a browser and are often logged into some sort of sync. It is a small step to use it.

So yes, if you want to use a different password manager go right ahead, as long as it checks the domain before filling the password.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 days ago

What do you mean a password manager that checks the domain? Isn't the auto fill based on the domain? I can't imagine how a password manager could fill a password without checking the domain, it wouldn't know which password to fill after all. Do any actually exist?

[-] kevincox@lemmy.ml 2 points 5 days ago

There are some password managers where you need to either manually look up passwords and copy+paste or autotype them or select the correct password from a dropdown. Some of these will come with an optional browser extension which mitigates this but some don't really tract domain metadata in a concrete way to do this linking.

Some examples would be Pass which doesn't have any standard metadata for domain/URL info (although some informal schemes are used by various tools including browser-integration extensions) and KeePass which has the metadata but doesn't come with a browser extension by default.

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

I see, so you mean manually getting the password out of the manager instead of domain based autofill.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 1 points 5 days ago

I was a bit confused on this to. Are their ones that constantly spam all your passwords at every opportunity???

this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
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