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Re: Changes to LastPass Free

#61

LastPass costs $36 per year. Operating on the principle of being the customer and not the product, that seems very reasonable for a secure way to store and share the keys to my digital life. That said, it does make it a little bit harder for me to onboard my friends and family when they ask. One of the selling points has always been "Yes, you can use it on your phone and laptop" and "no, it doesn't cost anything".

KeePass database stored in Dropbox is free.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

#62
post #55

I very happily pay $10/year for Bitwarden. It is in my opinion superior to Lastpass, and I don't have the doubts of the corporate governance.

Good to hear, I want to make the jump myself some day. At the moment I have a personal (paid) LastPass merged with my companies enterprise Lastpass and for sanity sake I get both in one UI with Youbikey support.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

#65

Just switched to Bitwarden. Took me ~15 minutes to get the browser extension + app installed and to complete the migration using the export/import features.

I've performed the switch as well, however, a couple of things to consider about Bitwarden: - field detection is much poorer in Bitwarden (ie. it will fill both signup and login fields in some websites... including HN) - Bitwarden timeout doesn't survive browser restarts (at least, this was the last time I've tried it), making it difficult to use for people with a complex password and frequent browser closing/opening

re: field detection

How does it do with sites that insist on using a 'password' type field for both username and password? This is my biggest pet peeve on the internet today!

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

#66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't use a service, use (Free) software and handle your personal data yourself. https://keepassxc.org/ is one option to do so.

Bitwarden is a F/OSS software that you can install its server on premise [1]. I hope it to be lighter, though (its minimal memory requirement is quite large). [1] https://bitwarden.com/help/article/install-on-premise/

You could try bitwarden_rs [1], much lighter on resources.

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

#67

I've been on 1Password since 2007. Unfortunately, software quality seems to have taken a nosedive since version 7 came out (disregarding the subscription issue). Random beachballs and slowdowns, annoying 2FA and duplicate password warnings, and decoupling of stored files from login entries. I have been considering a replacement but haven't found anything up to the ease of use and Mac/iOS integration of 1Password yet.

Same boat here. 1Password is now the slowest piece of software I use on a daily basis. 15-30 seconds to get a password out of 1Password mini, laggy and unresponsive keyboard navigation, TouchID prompts that stack under other modals or windows so they don't work, random beachballs, ... the list goes on.

At least sync still works flawlessly?

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

#69
post #33

Price aside, last I checked LastPass was terrible software compared to 1Password. I had all kinds of syncing problems with the browser extension. And LastPass had a huge breach in the past, which its competitors didn’t. I don’t trust that it’s quality software - especially because it doesn’t “look and feel” like quality software. Plus, they’re owned by LogMeIn, which is basically a crappy software conglomerate that i…

Those issues were ironed out years ago, at least in my case, and they were very very short-lived issues, though perhaps I was lucky. 2FA/Yubico support is nice as well. My main gripes are the lack of subdomain support e.g. if you have multiple subdomains, LP will offer ALL passwords for that domain and you have to scroll through the list to find the right one. #2: when you want to copy a password from one of the drop-down menus, sometimes "Copy Password" is above "Copy Username" and other times it's reversed, adding some extra cognitive load and just annoying due to lack of consistency.
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