Opinion - What are your thoughts on password managers? Do you use one? Would you recommend it to others?

NewYorkRush@lemmy.ca to Android@lemmy.world – 1149 points –
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Bitwarden is my chosen service, good pricing point and decent features. In terms of using a password manager, it has definitely made my life demonstrably easier and removes a lot of friction from my online life.

To add to this, I use a self-hosted version of bitwarden. My favourite feature so far would be being able to fill TOTP seamlessly for websites that has TOTP added as 2FA.

The moment I select an account to autofill on any device and login, the TOTP is automatically copied to the clipboard.

It feels seamless as hell to use the auto-generated TOTPs compared to diving in to emails, checking texts, bringing up google authenticator, etc. I can't go back.

Same. I actually have a family account, which has been an absolute blessing with kids. They know their own passwords now and no longer come to me wanting/needing to know their password for Xbox/Gmail/playstation/whatever everyother damned day. Also, if they need to know the Netflix password, they can check it too, because that's shared with them. It's brilliant. I'm honestly not sure how I lived without bittwarden.

I can safely say that I lived poorly, and far less securely, before I started using one.