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by baryphonic 1271 days ago
> Personally, I use Bitwarden and 1Password, but I'm a software engineer. I would not expect my elderly family members to do the same, especially because both involve installing and maintaining browser extensions that can be finicky when Chrome updates.

I've used 1Password for several years now. A couple years after I started using it, I upgraded to the family plan and got my wife into it. Granted, she's not elderly, but she's not exactly confident about technology. I was able to get her pretty comfortable with it in about two weeks. Now, we can easily share credentials with each other for things like Netflix or certain accounts we've set up for our kids by just putting them in our shared vault.

Im sure if I was trying to get my grandma to use it, she wouldn't get it, but in my experience 1Password at least is accessible to the non-techies among us.

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I'd agree with this and in a bit more bitter sentiment, I don't understand why absolutely everything has to have an extremely low learning curve. If you can drive a car or bake some bread, you can take the literal 30 minutes it takes to learn how to use a (brilliantly designed, in my opinion) UI/UX tool like 1password.
Just to add, my daughter has been using 1pw since she was 9. This is just how passwords are managed in my family now. This is the way.