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Quite a few standard password login flows have a "magic link" stream already, in the guise of password recovery -- enter your username on a link, click "forgot password", and get an email with a magic link allowing you to log in (after resetting the password). Which means the security model is not, in some cases, exactly what it appears to be...

Those can be actually worse because you end up having to choose a different password every time, and you're probably not going to make it stronger every time you forget...

Use your browser’s password suggestion.

I haven’t picked a password in a couple of years.

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