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Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by HaoZeke »

m000 wrote: post #370

LastPass seem to be shooting themselves in the foot with their irrational and inconsistent pricing. - A few years back, their free/premium tiers were looking similar to what they announced today. Only they charged a mere $15/year for premium, which I gladly paid. - Then, overnight, they offered syncing across all types of devices for their free tier. The premium tier was only adding some niche features. I would have…

I'm surprised Enpass doesn't get mentioned more. Though the UI recently took a huge hit because of an asinine pwned password checker.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by dangus »

lnl wrote: post #350
dangus wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never again on Keepass. The dollar savings is not worth the hassle of it. You have to use a different client on every device because the official client is Windows only, and I’ve even experienced bugs a client I used that caused me to lose data entered into secure notes. And while a single page app client is nice, it’s not good for password managers. 1Password integrates with the iOS password management API and brows…

> All that hassle so that you can save $10 a year. You are talking as if KeePass's only advantage is being free and it is only preferred by people who cheapen out. That's not true, just as it's not true for similar arguments for Android vs iOS, or Linux vs Windows, or Windows vs MacOS. People have different preferences and priorities. Even if the pricing was reversed, I am sure many people would prefer KeePass, as I…

Bitwarden is 100% open source and self-hostable.

Keepass is simply not the best solution anymore, even if you want to stay in the FOSS realm. It’s just clunky old software that makes it far too easy to accidentally lose data.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by dangus »

davchana wrote: post #336
dangus wrote: post #272

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So you voluntarily prevent yourself from updating passwords when you’re on your phone or tablet just so that your password manager doesn’t lose data? Isn’t that a ridiculous design oversight? To completely handicap any situation involving more than one computer? That’s exactly why I stopped using Keepass. All that hassle so that you can save $10 a year. https://bitwarden.com/pricing/

My use case is different. My all passwords are in Chrome. Simple. Keypass has some specific passwords like Chrome Sync Phrase, some zip file passwords, some other things. Plus initially I used to use keypass when i started using any password management instead of same password everywhere. At that time, & still now, I use Dropbox to sync PC KP db with Dropbox. Then FolderSync to sync one way (read only) from Dropbox t…

Bitwarden is 100% open source and self-hostable.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by m000 »

HaoZeke wrote: post #411
m000 wrote: post #370

LastPass seem to be shooting themselves in the foot with their irrational and inconsistent pricing. - A few years back, their free/premium tiers were looking similar to what they announced today. Only they charged a mere $15/year for premium, which I gladly paid. - Then, overnight, they offered syncing across all types of devices for their free tier. The premium tier was only adding some niche features. I would have…

I'm surprised Enpass doesn't get mentioned more. Though the UI recently took a huge hit because of an asinine pwned password checker.

Thanks for the pointer. First time I hear about Enpass.

The UI looks nice, but I still don't get their company model. Data are stored on a third party cloud provider of your choice, so why is Enpass subscription-based? I surmise that paying removes some sort of ads from the apps, but I can't tell for sure. If that's the case, I'll have to pass.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by PufPufPuf »

bootlooped wrote: post #11
Crosseye_Jack wrote: post #3

The title is slightly off. The limit is to a single device type, not device. If you only use LastPass on 2 devices of the same type (on your desktop and your laptop or if you only use it on your Mobile and your Tablet) you will be fine to stay on Free, However if you use it on your Desktop and your Mobile (like me) you will need to swap password managers or pay up for the service. Before LogMeIn brought them the serv…

FYI Bitwarden is only $10 a year. Before Bitwarden I used a combination of Keepass and Google Drive to sync all my passwords between devices. That was a workable solution, but Bitwarden is certainly easier, and I think more polished too.

Bitwarden is awesome. I use the free version and it covers all that I need. All the clients and the server are open-source, you can self-host it for free, and there are even alternative server implementations like https://github.com/dani-garcia/bitwarden_rs

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by PufPufPuf »

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 am very happy with Bitwarden. Fully open-source (including the server), free tier has everything I need (and the premium is just $10 a year), self-hostable (and there are even alternative server implementations). The UI isn't "sleek" but you'll get used to it very quickly. And it has a nice import wizard that will walk you through the process of exporting your passwords from other password managers.

Re: Changes to LastPass Free

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Post by junon »

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…

Keep in mind when discussing 1password's UX: all of the apps seem to be different between the platforms. My MacOS experience was much different than it is now on Windows.

The MacOS app is wonderful, but I find the Windows app incredibly annoying to use.

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