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Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by kennymeyers »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #257

I've been wanting to move away from LastPass for a while now for different reasons - it feels very heavy and clunky. It's slow and the autofill can be glitchy. Does anyone have any recommendations from this perspective? 1password seems more Apple-oriented, but my devices are all Windows (chrome), and Android. There's lots of discussion here about "terrible UI," but I imagine none of these password managers are consis…

I found 1password on windows to work just great. It's not as great as the Apple version but it's way better than the alternatives.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by joebasirico »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #257

I've been wanting to move away from LastPass for a while now for different reasons - it feels very heavy and clunky. It's slow and the autofill can be glitchy. Does anyone have any recommendations from this perspective? 1password seems more Apple-oriented, but my devices are all Windows (chrome), and Android. There's lots of discussion here about "terrible UI," but I imagine none of these password managers are consis…

I recently migrated from LastPass to 1Password. Honestly it's been great. The UI is better, sharing vaults is easier, they have integrations with haveibeenpwned.com, and integrations are seamless. There's no free tier, but the cost feels worth it to me. I was able to get my whole family on 1Password without too much hassle.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by prepend »

harikb wrote: post #252
prepend wrote: post #235

This is a feature not a productTM. I switched to using safari’s password sync across mobile and desktop. It only works on iPhones and macOS desktop safari, but I adjusted my workflow. It’s both free, and reliable as long as Apple supports it. But I trust Apple to exist or migrate better than a dedicated product company like lastpass. Both for a decent user workflow and for not being breached (much scarier to me). I k…

What you need to worry about being tightly integrated with Apple is not a hacker getting your data - it is being stuck with you or your surviving family not having access to your own data. This is my primary worry about walled gardens such as Apple or Google where you could be locked out of your own data because, you know, you looked at your phone the wrong way. In this instance, you are better of relying on someone…

This is a good concern, and one I mitigate by keeping a file with trusted people that is to be used in case of my death.

I think I’m better off relying on Apple’s business of protecting my identity (and selling me more apps, music, phones). And the effort spent on this by Apple is likely better than the primary purpose of a much smaller company. I also don’t think the incentives for a password as a service company that makes money off a monthly fee are lined up with mine. In time, I think they will only get worse as they layer on “features” to grow revenue from a fixed, and shrinking, market.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by Lunatic666 »

rrrrrrrrrrrryan wrote: post #257

I've been wanting to move away from LastPass for a while now for different reasons - it feels very heavy and clunky. It's slow and the autofill can be glitchy. Does anyone have any recommendations from this perspective? 1password seems more Apple-oriented, but my devices are all Windows (chrome), and Android. There's lots of discussion here about "terrible UI," but I imagine none of these password managers are consis…

We moved away from LastPass for the reasons you mentioned and for the problem that I couldn't recover the password of a business account. The account was just not usable and they couldn't even delete it, so once someone made a mistake while opening it, their email address was blocked. I think they fixed this since we moved, but 1Password is not standing in my way and does everything reliably and quietly.

They have apps for all (mobile) OSes and even a native Linux app, what I really appreciate. I just saw they also have a CLI, I have to test this, too.

I'm just a happy customer with ~60 users and not affiliated.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by michaelcampbell »

ballenf wrote: post #250
michaelcampbell wrote: post #245

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean to each their own, but for a password manager security trumps integration for me.

Are some of the options discussed more or less secure than the others?

Well, pedantically yes unless every option is exactly as secure as all the rest.

Less pedantically there's stuff like: https://hackaday.com/2016/08/01/lastpass-happily-forfeits-pa...

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by neogodless »

joekrill wrote: post #187
blunte wrote: 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.

I've tried really, _really_ hard to like Bitwarden. But I ran into 2 huge issues, that ended up being blockers for me: 1. Sharing is super-confusing. I was trying to organize things for my mom, as well for my wife and I. And you have to create these "organizations". And they makes things really confusing for a variety of reasons. They are a different pricing/SKU. And the UX around them is not good. It's not clear whe…

Having just set up a free organization the other day, I agree it was slightly confusing. Mostly because I was kind of hoping to combine costs for an organization with the per user $10/year plan. In the end, I set up a FREE organization for two people, and paid for the per-user upgrade for one of us, for now, to get the reports on bad passwords.

If you're trying to set it up for three users, you'd need to pay for a organization, which starts at $9/month. On the other hand, I believe you could set up two free organizations where you are a member in each, and you add your mom to one and your wife to the other.

https://bitwarden.com/help/article/getting-started-organizat...

https://bitwarden.com/pricing/business/

I don't think it was a particularly difficult process, but I did it on my computer, and once it was all figured out, helped my spouse with the rest. I don't find the sharing process confusing. You click Share on a saved password, choose the organization, and then you choose the collection you put it in (which can simply be Default.)

I haven't found BitWarden to be slow, but my laptop is a Ryzen 7 4800H and my old phone was a Pixel 3, so neither are slouches. Not sure how many records I have but I'd estimate about 500.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by drudoo »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #232
kevindong wrote: post #227

LastPass was my first ever password manager and I used for it ~5 years. A few years ago, I got fed up with how sluggish it was (at least, at the time). So I switched over the Bitwarden. Unfortunately, the Bitwarden Safari extension for macOS had a bug where I had unlock my vault every time I wanted to use a credential and that got annoying. Around the same time I started using Bitwarden, I started at a job with a cor…

I was going to reply "the problem with 1password is they have no Linux support," but it looks like Linux support actually got added late last year! (Or at least there's an open beta.) https://blog.1password.com/1password-for-linux-beta-is-now-o... Anyone used both 1password and Bitwarden? I'm using Bitwarden right now, but I dislike the fact that their desktop app is Electron based.

1Password have had a cli interface for some time. I used to use that on Linux like two years ago.

Since the release of 1PasswordX I hardly ever spend time in the native apps except for iOS.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

mod wrote: post #157

Even though I know the answer, I think it's interesting to note that none of the "questions" posed ask "Why?" I guess they felt the obvious cash grab was obvious enough to have no need for explanation. I'll be moving off to somewhere else, despite being pretty deeply entrenched in lastpass. Hopefully there are some migration tools available. I have hundreds, maybe thousands of passwords stored--generated passwords wh…

> Hopefully there are some migration tools available

LastPass will export your saved passwords into a CSV file. Dunno about importing into another program, though.

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