it’s pretty old, for instance this is a description of the same issue from 2013: https://www.howtogeek.com/70146/how-secure-are-your-saved-chrome-browser-passw

it’s pretty old, for instance this is a description of the same issue from 2013: https://www.howtogeek.com/70146/how-secure-are-your-saved-chrome-browser-passwords/ https://www.howtogeek.com/70146/how-secure-are-your-saved-ch... The link to the “why isn’t there a master password?” question is now dead, but from memory of the disucssion at that time, it was basically said that browser passwords are inherently unsecure as they end up in plain text in the password field, and trying to add layers upon layers of encryption was just distracting from that fact. That position explains a lot about how Chrome handles these passwords.