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o11cyesterday at 10:42 PM6 repliesview on HN

If you are "copy-pasting" you are not using your password manager correctly.


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roywigginstoday at 12:57 AM

Password managers rarely are able to autofill 100% of the time. Autofill breaking is not a very strong indicator of a phishing attempt, people are used to manually filling the password in sometimes for totally legit sites.

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kallebootoday at 2:26 AM

It's far too common for websites to redirect to some separate domain for sign in which isn't the one originally used to sign up, getting users used to "oh gotta copy the password again" as a totally normal thing that happens

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deweyyesterday at 10:45 PM

As I said in my comment above, sometimes it’s necessary as websites break the auto fill, or mobile apps don’t offer the password manager sheet.

otterleyyesterday at 10:47 PM

This very story illustrates how people will override their password manager's builtin protections when panic ensues.

madeofpalkyesterday at 10:53 PM

If only everyone did everything perfectly all the time, we wouldn't have any issues!