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Why doesn't Google or Apple have 'explain like I'm 5' explanations of how their password managers work? I don't use either service but this is a MAJOR opportunity to encourage their users to use a password manager and subsequently make their users more secure online.

I'm a big proponent of using a password manager and if I even remotely mention using iCloud Keychain or Google's password manager, people have zero idea what I'm talking about.

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I agree. It’s odd that an article this technical goes on to recommend (or at least enumerate popular) password managers, but doesn’t mention Apple’s own KeyChain. It’s built into all iPhones and MacOS computers for god’s sake.

I personally don’t use any 3rd party password managers. I find KeyChain to work amazingly. There’s even a FireFox plugin that supports it.

A problem is that most users are likely in a mixed computing household, such as using an iPhone and a Windows Desktop. It would be a lot easier to suggest to some of my family, for instance, to use KeyChain if they had a good Windows client. (With the recent modern iCloud update in the Microsoft Store, I could even see this possibly happening, as opposed to the many years where iTunes for Windows was an afterthought.)

What FireFox plugin is that? I've been looking for a solution to this for ages.

KeyChain is not an open standard and is not easily interoperable with other strategies or products. You shouldn't build best practice out of a single company's walled garden.

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