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Are You Saving The Passwords On Browsers?

Ajay Neman on January 08, 2021

Today I visited one website in chrome browser and after making the process of registration and login on that web site. The browser prompts me that ...
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Miles Watson • Edited

If anyone wants to know what they should use instead, I recommend Bitwarden. It is open source, has a good free tier, and premium is only £10 a year (a lot cheaper than the alternatives).

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Carlo Federico Vescovo

I use a self-hosted version of Bitwarden: github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs.
It's open source, written in Rust (one of my favourite languages), really fast and it has all the features you would get with the paid version.

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Carlo Federico Vescovo

(it is also compatible with upstream Bitwarden clients)

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Ajay Neman

Yes Bitwarden is very nice and cost effective than keeper , Dashlane and many others. LastPass is also good password manger.

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Fun thing about Windows and probably macOS: although it requires OS password to see stored credentials you can use Dev tools on each page either by console and do something like document.getElementById('password').value or change type to text on element on the page you want to login. So I don't really see the point of that main pass

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Ajay Neman

I couldn't know this. Thanks for your information.

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Suraj Vishwakarma

Nice article to get started with saving passwords on the browser. Google chrome does not only store to chrome but to your account too. You can access those passwords by searching on Google irrespective of platform.

I think having a good password is necessary as you can't remember the password of hundreds of websites and can't take the risk to use the same password.

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Ajay Neman

Yes you are right suraj

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Rishabh Singh ⚡

I personally like to use LastPass to save my passwords which can be easily accessed through extensions and mobile app. Also as you just mentioned, I don't prefer using my browser to store my important passwords simply because I don't trust my browser. But when it comes to passwords of websites which I don't really much care about but I visit often then it's ok for me to store it in the browser for faster access because in such a case I don't really care if my password got stolen.

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Ajay Neman

Yes rishabh you are very correct . its totally depend on how much important the website for us.

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jibudeh01

Great article. I hope this garners lot of readership. Simple security measures we all take for granted. Thanks for sharing.

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Ajay Neman

Thanks a lot man. Your comment excites me to write some more amazing articles.