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[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 4 points 1 year ago

Since I'm now using a password manager I've been having less issue with creating as many accounts as needed.
But I do agree it'd be great to have a single sign on.

[-] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 3 points 1 year ago

If you are looking for a little bit of "extra" to go with your password manager, check out firefox relay. You can create emails that forward to your real email without exposing it. They allow you to block emails entirely, or just promotions. Their paid option is like $12/year (USD) and allows unlimited masks, and allowing you to create your own relay subdomain (like (whatever I decide)@dusty.mozmail.com). It's definitely worth the relatively tiny charge for the paid version.

There is also a relay service with Cloudflare but I've not tried it out yet. But having an email like 0tK8h384jkcxas@mozmail.com saved to my password manager is no big deal.

[-] pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.dev 1 points 1 year ago
[-] Dusty@lemmy.dustybeer.com 1 points 1 year ago

I've not heard of that before, I'll have to check it out. Cheers

[-] jmp242@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

But then you have the same centralization issue - and it's even worse, if the central authority has a fit for some reason about you, now you're locked out of many completely unrelated sites.

[-] OnionFutures@vlemmy.net 2 points 1 year ago

You mean the password manager as the central authority? You can self host a password manager using, eg, Vaultwarden.

Even if you use a trusted, paid commercial service, I think the risk of that happening is lower than on Reddit. Their business model is simpler and more transparent. They want to keep you as a customer so you will keep paying them. And there is less opportunity for them to ban you for political reasons when you're not expressing yourself on their platform.

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