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by vlakreeh 1091 days ago
Ease of use is the biggest one. While you and I are capable of setting up and keeping up a remote machine with a self-hosted password manager, I'm incredibly confident my barely tech literate parents are. Realistically for people that aren't savvy enough to set up their own thing it's a e2ee password manager using that password manager's remote service or them using the same password for multiple websites and more of a lesser of two evils.
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That makes sense. However, it's not that different from using the same password on all sites as an attacker only needs the master key for your online password manager.
It's very different. Even if I gave you my master password, you wouldn't be able to get into my account. The password manager I use has MFA (and I don't mean 2FA).