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Why does nobody talk about password managers blocking autofill on sketchy sites?
I finally caught it last week when a fake Amazon login page popped up and my Bitwarden refused to fill in the credentials, which is how I realized that feature has saved me from phishing at least three times this year alone - has anyone else had that happen and not even notice?
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rosek731d ago
Mine did that with a fake Best Buy link too. I think it's actually 1Password and Bitwarden both doing it now, not just one or the other. Took me a while to realize they were saving me, not being annoying.
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leor3720h ago
It took me a minute to realize what @rosek73 was saying here, but yeah, I think you're right. They're both programmed now to flag suspicious links, not just phishing attempts in emails. So when you click a fake Best Buy link from a text or a forum post, the password manager catches it because it doesn't match the real site's URL pattern. But what I'm wondering is, have you ever had it block a legit link by mistake? Like a weird subdomain or a redirect that was actually safe. That's the only thing that makes me nervous about trusting it completely.
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