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Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
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[–] 46 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Time to uninstall chrome. Can I move my passwords, bookmarks and saved data there? How do I do it?

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  • [–] 70 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When you install any browser (Firefox recommend) it ask you if you want to transfer browser data. It will guide you through (its pretty much automatic)

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    just adding that granted FF already has a decent password manager there are also reliable, free and open source and audited independent password manager like as

    • Bitwarden (remote service as basic or premium plan, optionally self hosted, user friendly service, very likely has some account migration wizard tool to help importing data from browsers) and
    • KeepassXC (local, user managed, a bit techy)

    which both can plug in any browser through their respective extension.

    Being both an independent option from the browser they help the user not making him vendor locked to his browser through his saved data.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Plot twist: Bitwarden on desktop is Chromium browser based.

    Still can be used in FF as plugin.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Good to know! I've never installed bitwarden desktop and always used the Firefox extension. I just recently found out that Bitwarden has a desktop app. I was thinking of trying it out, until I read your comment. I think I'll just stick with the extension. Thank you for your TED talk.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    There's nothing special about it. It's just the extension in a larger format. I've tried to use it a few times, but there's no gain over the extension. And, typically the extension is better because I already have my browser open, so I don't need to open a new app.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Pretty much every web-app wrapped into a desktop environment uses Electron, which is based in Chromium.

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    KeepassXC is not available for Android.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    The Android implementation is called KeePassDX.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (2 children)

    There's also KeePass2Android. I opted for this because it brings a very useful feature called QuickUnlock. Your opened database gets locked in standby but you can reopen it with just the last 3 characters without needing to retype the whole passphrase.

    @aux@lemmy.world

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    KeepassDX can quick unlock with the device pin or with biometrics but the major hassle vs bitwarden is the management of syncing the database, which can be opened as file from the mobile and the desktop app also at the same time, instead bitwarden access your pwd database only remotely and only querying it, but the file is opened only on the server.

    But browsers plugin work in the same way, they connect to the local app like it was a server, so it might be possible in the future that there will be an app which can access the db remotely, with this being opened only from the app on the desktop.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The only reason I use chrome is for the passwords feature and realising that it is a separate service to android password manager has made it pointless. I thought changing phones would be easier as it had my bank apps and everything in chrome but it never promoted.

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