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by rst 1929 days ago
Quite a few standard password login flows have a "magic link" stream already, in the guise of password recovery -- enter your username on a link, click "forgot password", and get an email with a magic link allowing you to log in (after resetting the password). Which means the security model is not, in some cases, exactly what it appears to be...
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Those can be actually worse because you end up having to choose a different password every time, and you're probably not going to make it stronger every time you forget...
Use your browser’s password suggestion.

I haven’t picked a password in a couple of years.