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nixxquality commented on c1ac0ba 4 hours ago

    They are not alone. I know many people who would find this offensive. It isn't like they shadowbanned them or deleted the repo outright. The maintainers were given 24hrs and instructions to fix it.
    -- @ybur-yug
No, what actually happened is that somebody reported the original upstream of this fork (WebMBro/WebMConverter) but since @WebMBro himself left a while ago (which prompted me to make this fork in the first place), GitHub couldn't get a response from him, so they shut down that repo along with all forks, with seemingly no communication towards other fork developers.

I had to contact GitHub myself in order to even get a notification of what was going on, and it took them about 3 days to restore any kind of access to my fork of the project.

This article uses "password managers" ambiguously. In my opinion, a browser is a terrible password manager because of what is stated in the "pros" section of the article. My advice aligns with others who have replied here - get a real password manager such as 1password and allow autocomplete="off" to do what it is supposed to do.