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Comment by bethekidyouwant

17 hours ago

Getting your account back on reinstall is good

That's what a username and password are for. I'd rather not be forcibly tracked.

  • I have 200+ different passwords stored in iCloud Keychain, each 20+ characters long. How am I supposed to remember all of those?

    Do you use the same password on every site? How do you deal with data breaches?

    • Major reason I don't use password managers that much.

      > Do you use the same password on every site?

      I use a password I can reconstruct in memory for sites I care about logging in by hand. If I don't, or don't mind resetting my password each time, I just use random garbage + whatever platform password manager is the one active today, with vague hopes that it'll still be there the next time I need to log in.

      > How do you deal with data breaches?

      Who ever cares about those? I'm yet to hear about anything impactful being released on those. It only matters if you actually do reuse the same e-mail/login and password combinations on both important sites and garbage sites. Which is something you should not. But 2FA and magic links tend to solve that vendor-side, these days.

I can fucking type my username and password, thank you.

And I prefer to see and choose the data an app stores on my fucking ICLOUD ACCOUNT. And fucking DELETE it when I want.

There's no way to do that from an iOS device.