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Just spitballing, but couldn't you have a new device login as three fields, username, password, and encryption key? Then if you don't add the encryption key you don't get the history, but still access the account. Then if password managers really saved all three, then would simplify it for more people (at least those with password managers). But there still has to be a cultural shift for a lot of people to password managers asking non-tech people



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