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by Alex3917 3667 days ago
> Charging $100 is pretty punitive

Not really, considering there is zero reason for anyone to ever lose a password assuming they are using a password manager. You could even make it free for the first few hours after the account is created or the password is changed in case the user pastes it into their password manager incorrectly.
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copperx 3667 days ago
And how many "normal" people do you know that use a password manager? It's 0 for me. They don't even use post-it notes, which would be an improvement over "I'll just try to remember the password, and if I can't, I'll ask someone to help me ".
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lgas 3667 days ago
Assuming the "someone" is the forgot password feature and not a person, this seems like a sound approach. It's basically using the site itself as a slightly clunky password manager.
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EpicEng 3667 days ago
>Not really, considering there is zero reason for anyone to ever lose a password assuming they are using a password manager

Oh, so in other words; a tiny fraction of the internet using public?

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