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If you are on Safari, your browsers' builtin password manager is unfortunately Keychain and you cannot easily export your passwords out of keychain.

Additionally, if you use two different browsers or operating systems you'll need a 3rd party tool to keep your passwords in sync.

For me, that's why I use a 3rd party.

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Funny thing is though, I consider myself the 1st party. The website or app I am using is the 2nd party. Anyone else including the browser is a 3rd party. Neither Google, nor Apple, nor Mozilla, to name a few of the top browser-makers, are anything more than middlemen.

I think it's better to trust them with less rather than allow them to keep the passwords as well since they have no incentive to make them portable between competing browsers.




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