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Nah fuck that. Sites need to adopt this passkeys instead. It’s an impossible task for people to have unique credentials for every site, even if they are “memorable”. This is a design issue not a personal responsibility one. When designing for large volumes of people, you have to assume that the majority will do something easy and stupid over difficult and smart.
Until they do, password managers get you most of the way there, by letting you have a single password on your side, mapping to one password for each login. Bitwarden is great, and free.
Bitwarden is the way
Sites need to stop needing an account for everything. My haveibeenpwnd is full of sites that I can't believe had my email in the first place. Obviously I gave it to them but like cmon