The browser sees all the logins we make, with websites, usernames, and passwords in plain text. How do we know it isn’t remembering them and sending them back to the mother ship?
It’s possible someone would inspect the code of open source browsers and make a noise if they found something, but even then most people don’t build from source, so there’s no need for the source to be the same as the downloaded app.
2FA makes it less of a problem, but there are still plenty of juicy pickings for the evil browser.
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As others said, you can’t and you shouldn’t. Use a third party app (like LastPass) to manage your passwords.
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