You might think you'd notice if the site you're on had a different URL than the one you're expecting, but that level of constant vigilance might turn out to be more difficult to maintain than you expect. Especially when you take into account some of the more exotic phishing techniques like IDN homograph attacks.
Sorry, not doomed to fail.
I'm not gonna use a password manager that is "context aware" and has the capability to auto-fill for sensitive sites - that's just my threat model. I'm okay with context aware storing of less critical passwords.
This is literally one of the last major attack vectors since password managers became somewhat more popular.
They all do encryption well, even the ones that keep the database on a server you don't control it's most probably actually encrypted, etc. They do the basic password manager thing. They keep your passwords.
Every time there's something wrong/vulnerable with a password manager, it is because it's a browser extension and the attack surface between the password manager and the browser is being attacked.
> I share your wariness of the browser extensions, but you're betting that a software bug is more likely than human error.
Well, it literally has been.
(this is why I'm using Keepass and no browser extension for my passwords)
Can you give an example?
I seem to remember reading about similar stuff done elsewhere, but don't remember the details (or apparently a useful search term :P).
There is an option to autofill, but it's buried in advanced settings and Bitwarden will display a warning if you try to enable it. (This message ought to be worded more explicitly—it currently says "this feature is in beta" rather than "this feature will decrease you're security"—but, still, not a default.)
why should I as someone who is securing my own passwords care about your preferences or what will and won't work for someone else too lazy to be concerned?
I'd prefer people are using any password manager than go for perfection and then quit completely because it was a terrible UX. KeePass may be more secure against certain specific attacks, but it is largely irrelevant if people are going to contrast it against using no password manager at all because it was too cumbersome.