Have you ever had someone on here basically cyber stalk you and threaten you?

@Elessar you miss understand they didnt log into my email they would spam email me to get my attention text call threaten They didn't guess my password as it was linked to alot of stuff .. but i deleted it so

@silver1sil Keep different passwords for everything, the browser autocompletion is your friend. It's not uncommon for sites/services to get hacked, and passwords be leaked. And you can bet that once they have one's email and password they try logging it with them on as many services as possible.

Also, activate 2FA (authenticator apps which generate 6 random digits that you need to type in on each login) at the very least on the most critical services (bank, email, etc.)

@Elessar Good advice, but I'd add using a password manager. The one I use is only on my HDD so it would require someone hacking into my computer, then working out the password for the manager. It can generate random passwords and passphrases for you. My email YouTube and Firefox accounts are saved on the system, but are very large, randomised passphrases. The others I enter when I want to log onto a site or service. The big thing is to have strong, randomised passwords/phrases for each of your logins. Never use them on more than one site.

@Bushranger Browser's password manager is exactly a distributed alternative to the one in your HDD, and at least with Firefox all your passwords are sent and stored encrypted so even if Mozilla got hacked they couldn't be retrieved by a malignant actor. As a plus, you won't lose them if your HDD/filesystem breaks (not uncommon), and you'll get a nice autocompletion feature on every login form on all your devices.

@Elessar True, but I keep a backup of my most important files, especially my password database so that's not too much of an issue (and, no, it's not stored in the cloud but on two high quality USB sticks, one stored externally and the other carried with me all the time). The data in my password manager is also encrypted, so even if someone hacks my computer, they're going to have a very hard time getting my passwords. And this way I can use any web browser I want, not restricted to Firefox. But that's me, other's will have different ideas; each to their own 😊

@Bushranger I used KeePassX in a similar fashion until migrating them all to Firefox myself 😌

@Elessar I used to have them on Firefox, now I use KeepassXC, LOL.