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I'm speaking out of personal experience trying to get non-average users (my friends and family, some of whom work in non-technical roles at software companies) to understand and use password managers.

Most of them can't and won't invest the time just to switch to 1Password. The average person isn't going to exceed that bar by a margin that even I, a software developer, wouldn't bother with.

When something is too technical for even an average developer to bother with (because it's unnecessary, not because it's hard), it is totally hopeless for the average user.



it took a LOOOONG time to get my wife into using a password manager, specifically 1Pass. I'm super comfortable with an offline password manager, but there is not a chance in hell that I'd subject her to that

for a large amount of people, tech and non-tech alike, LastPass and 1Pass are really really good.


Paragraph one is good. In paragraph two, you're doing it again. :D

It's easy, unless you have actual data, what you have is an opinion.




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