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Most online logins have limits. You can't just try a million passwords in a second.
Nobody will try to brute force your account on a login form unless you are a high value target. Databases get leaked and password hashes with them. There are tools like haveibeenpwned which check your email against known database dumps that are available to everyone on the dark web.
Iβm subscribed to haveibeenpwned but sometimes I read of breaches where password were plain textβ¦ a password manager is the best option, some of them also alert you of known breaches so you can change your password instantly
In theory that is correct. In practice, not always the case. Up until 8 years ago you could brute force iCloud passwords: https://www.intego.com/mac-security-blog/apple-patches-brute-force-password-cracking-security-hole-in-icloud
This is true, but if their password database gets compromised and they're using insecure storage then they can brute force all day. There are server farms dedicated to doing just that and the vast majority of users are using simple, easy to guess passwords. The most common password? "password" [source: https://nordpass.com/most-common-passwords-list/]. Yes, we are a stupid species.