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If you value privacy, ditch Chrome and switch to Firefox now
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this post was submitted on 17 Jul 2023
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Al my passwords are in google. I just don't have the energy to migrate, frankly. Chrome does what I want, and the password manager is seamless enough that anything else is less-robust and more work.
You can export them from Chrome and import them to Firefox.
If you can, I highly recommend using a password manager like bitwarden with multiple backups spread on local password manager or local drive. Think of it this way, what happens if firefox or chrome were to suffer catastrophic failure? At least with a password manager, you can reinstall another browser and carry on as usual. :)
Tbh if google suffers catastrophic failure my passwords probably gonna be pretty far in the list i need to worry about lol.
Time to start de-googling?
It wont help a ton of businises, banks, and government stuff relying on google in varying capacity to work lol.
If Chrome suffers a catastrophic failure I won't lose my passwords because it stores them in my Google account.
And what if your google account stops working? What if it’s hacked? What if google goes bankrupt? What if google discontinues chrome or remove the password features? What if Google follows reddit and starts charts charging you for your passwords? So many what ifs. So much power to give to a for profit company.
That's kinda like saying, "If someone pulls a knife on me in the street and asks for my wallet, nothing will happen because killing is illegal".
Google owns both Chrome and your password manager, at any time they are perfectly capable of pulling the plug on them, leaking data, charging you for them, etc.