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> The number of people using password managers is literally a rounding error.

Given that they're present out of the box in all major browsers, I find it hard to believe. Maybe it's true for the user base of that enterprise app, but on the web as a whole?

And Chrome particularly is very aggressive at pushing the password manager. It will detect login forms and ask to remember passwords even without people interacting with it at all. It will offer to pre-fill a login form as soon as you start typing your login.

And recently, it's even offering to auto-generate strong passwords when it sees what looks like an account registration form - and those passwords then get saved straight to the password manager, so any person that takes the easiest route and clicks "OK, sure" is going to be tied to said manager thereafter.



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