Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others? - eviltoast
    • cold@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      bitwarden is the first thing i install on any device and every fresh install

    • Slynk@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Bitwarden is the best! I actually started with one of the more popular ones, Dashlane, and the thing I found most annoying about it was the boxes and stuff that would always pop up anytime I clicked on a text field. Bitwarden never puts a box on the middle of the screen.

      It’s free, open source, use it on your phone, mac, PC, browser extension for Firefox. It’s the best.

      • charles@lemmy.ca
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        1 year ago

        Huge fan of Bitwarden as well.

        I love that you can assign a shortcut for autofill. I found the automatic autofill a bit too trigger happy and the shortcut solves that since it’ll only autofill when I know there’s actually a username/password box on the page. It also works perfectly with websites that ask for the username and password at seperate times (google, Microsoft, etc).

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        1 year ago

        *if you keep it updated and follow best practices

        Self-hosting isn’t a requirement for this and you probably shouldn’t if you havent self hosted things before.

        They’ve been independently audited and have earned enough trust to use their hosting imo.

        • Stilicho@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          Yeah I agree. I meant that you can save yourself an extra 10 euros a year simply by running a docker container. It’s not like there’s much setting up to it, but yeah definitely read documentation.

    • easterner@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I just started using it and am loving it. Although I dont know how well it will integrate with my phone yet. A bit worried about some native apps.