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There's no way for the average person to keep up with remembering unique, strong passwords for all the sites that require them.
You either have to write it down, save it in a password manager, reuse passwords, or have simplified passwords or patterns.
We're supposed to take security advice from someone for freely gave their password out?
But in all seriousness yes phrases are better. You don't need the money symbol 1234t67890 especially if it makes it harder to remember.
You can even have each phrase be the website. TargetSucksMonkeyDick, BestBuySucksMonkeyDick are secure passwords.
Which is KIND OF ok unless someone looks at a password breech list and figures out your super simple pattern. And I'm sure the rise of AI being used in password breech attacks will just make it more automated.
Real, true, random passwords/tokens is really the only way to actually be safe. Which means you have to use a password generator, AND something to save the password.
Don't simply put the site's name there. Put a similar sounding easy to remember word, a synonym, rhyming slang, the first and last letters of the site's name plus the number of letters in the domain name, whatever.