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Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by SV_BubbleTime »

dingaling wrote: post #353
SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell you what, I’ll give you my moms phone number and you have her set up keypass remotely with only quick basic instructions. No? Because she was able to set up and run Lastpass fine.

And now she'll have to export and migrate away from Lastpass. So the complexity was basically tail-loaded. One of the major advantages of an app like Keepass{whatever} is that once it's set up it keeps working without subscription or keeping an eye on your inbox for changes to the Terms of Use.

She could pay the $12 or whatever it is.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by dkonofalski »

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…

Same. I've been a 1Password license holder for forever and I was looking at switching away from it because they seem to be moving completely to their subscription service but now the value of the subscription service is looking better and better since I started looking at other options. I can get multi-platform apps for my entire family, with the features I've been using for years, and the cost is cheaper than what I was paying in the past for each individual license on each device.

The only thing keeping me from switching is my past experience with these types of services where, once I make the switch, they remove the standalone license and then raise their prices and I have no alternatives besides dropping the ecosystem entirely or ponying up the ransom. I don't like being in that situation.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by dkonofalski »

dastx wrote: post #325
falcolas wrote: post #234

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Keepass is another cross-platform option (open source), though the UI on non-windows environments is a bit... crap. Nontheless, it works, and it works well.

Keepass and all is great. But it doesn't have first class support for anything but passwords. I'm sure many people will cringe when reading this, but I also save credit cards in my password manager and use it to auto fill when I need it. This unfortunately isn't supported by Keepass et al. It has templates, which are supported by some implementation but not others. Which also isn't great.

I do this too and it's another reason that I use 1Password. I use this functionality a lot too because I very rarely have my wallet on me but I always have my phone.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by dkonofalski »

genericuser256 wrote: post #321
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #232

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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.

Personally, I've used 1Password, Bitwarden, and LastPass. I switched from LastPass to Bitwarden a few years ago (use it on android and browsers for the most part), and use 1Password for work. Overall I'd say 1Password has the worst UX of all of them, though it looks "clean". It routinely messes with my settings on update, it's password generator is annoying to work with, and it doesn't pick up new logins I've entered…

I feel like there's something wrong with your setup, then. I've literally never had to use the option in 1Password to create a new login for a page. It prompts me 100% of the time to save the login info when I login to a site and, sometimes, even prompts me to create a login when I go to create an account before I've ever logged in for the first time.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by dastx »

pseudalopex wrote: post #387
dastx wrote: post #326

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Last year 1Password announced official support for Linux, and released a beta. Surprisingly it wasn't an electron app but proper desktop app.

It's Electron.[1] [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/i3njt3/1password_anno...

> and React for a responsive component-based UI.

Heh. I clearly got too excited to read it properly back when they announced it.

I stand corrected.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by Postosuchus »

It's quite sad how the same old story unveils: an agile company with a great product and large community sells off to a large corporation, which destroys both the community and the product on its quest to squeeze more ROI...

About 3 years ago, having been fed with regular price hikes without any good reason and/or new features, I switched to 1Password and never looked back.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by toyg »

tonymet wrote: post #181
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.

Anyone have a thorough guide to migrating to bitwarden. I’ve tried and failed . I have notes , multiple logins per site , about 1000 credentials .

Import features alone should work, but if you’re absolutely desperate you can roll your own import process with bitwarden-cli (it’s on github and various package managers).

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by BugWatch »

tobib wrote: post #219
vultour wrote: post #61

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KeePass database stored in Dropbox is free.

I was a happy user of that workflow until I started working for an organization that blocked Dropbox but not any of the browser plugin based password managers. Also while free, arguably the UX is not very good especially on mobile, unless Keepass integrates the way Lastpass, 1Password, et al do. I cannot imagine convincing any of my non-tech friends to go this route.

KeePass is extensible. IIRC, with addon(s), your encrypted DB file can be stored on your Google drive, or even your own (or company's) server.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by _coveredInBees »

tunesmith wrote: post #363
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #68

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How does it compare with 1Password?

Bitwarden doesn't have a Safari extension anymore since Safari's extensions are their own format... Safari since said they'd allow Chrome's extension api but I haven't heard if Bitwarden will start developing the Safari extension again.

That's not true. If you install it from the Mac App store, you do then get the extension and can activate it within Safari. I just switched from LastPass to Bitwarden and by all accounts it seems better than LastPass (for my basic usage) and the Safari extension is working fine for me.
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