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by fsfasfd 7 hours ago
I use a password manager as well. But, I think we are in the minority. It doesn't help that Apple keychain is a confusing mess however. If these things were designed better from the main providers it would be more widely adopted.

One issue I see all the time (for consumer level password managers) is that, for example, their browser has a password manager, but keychain interjects often. Then they don't know where their password was saved. On top of that, Keychain does some magic stuff to pair URLs to passwords, and then there's "Passkeys" built in. When it remembers password(s), passkeys, different URLs (not very human-readable), automatically remembers stuff, injects things: it's a tangled mess.

Go to a coffee shop and ask 20 people of different demographics whether they would prefer to use a password manager app or to log into sites using an existing social or email account. We have to protect the lowest-common-denominator in terms of technical literacy. Scammers are going after elderly, so unless you have a solution to protect them, it's not THE solution.