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by ascorbic 3380 days ago
A "better" password that you share between accounts is far worse than less strong passwords that are unique to each account. "+D%W}B_]7|~y" might be unfeasible to brute force, but that doesn't do much good if it turns up as plaintext in a dump and you've used it for all of your work or personal sites.
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What? Where did I say I share these passwords? I don't. Go up to my top post. Passwords of any importance are unique, also random, and stored in a text file in an encrypted volume (with a unique, strong, memorized key).

The only non-unique keys I use, are also nonrandom, and used for accounts with no security consequences. Like this one.

Apologies, I misunderstood your post.