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Password reuse is rampant: nearly half of observed user logins are compromised
(blog.cloudflare.com)
this post was submitted on 19 Mar 2025
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I reuse passwords quite intentionally. It reduces memory use.
Does the account have any saved personal info (other than email)? No? Continue.
Was the account used for credit card info? No? Continue.
Do I care about the account in some way? No, plus no to all of the above? Don’t care, use an easy to remember password and don’t bother saving it to my overly bloated password manager.
It absolutely causes problems with some cloudflare sites because that email/password combo was compromised decades back, but I usually have no intention of accessing the account again when I use it so I don’t actually care. It’s their problem at that point, and I never use legit info for any of it anyway (I have a spam email I use for these things, never with my own name or info, because they don’t fucking need it)