Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought AgileBits was pretty well respected around here. What dark patterns are you referring to?
I'm assuming he's referring to their beginnings of being a mostly local password manager (iirc they also had a one-off lifetime purchase), to forcing people to migrate to their cloud only infrastructure with a relatively high subscription price. I'd never heard of 1Password before they were fully SaaS, but as I understand it, some of the original users were pretty upset with this move. Either way, I used to be a 1Pas…
1Password Secrets Automation
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#22Why would anyone trust their passwords with closed source software, when there's alternatives out there that are?
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#23Hah. With the gimmicks, tricks, and dark patterns this company has pulled with consumer, what are the chances professionals would trust them with something like this?
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#24I still think 1Password is the best option for most people. I specifically want my non-technical family and friends to use password managers too as long as its necessary, and having some multiperson capability is also key to that. I can't say though that I feel like the move to subs has been a huge win in terms of development.
Granted, I'm a little down on the whole field which colors things a bit. Ultimately underlying my feelings is a touch of bitterness that their entire industry even exists. Passwords and password managers are mostly recreating public key auth really, really badly and it stinks. Passwords and other symmetric tokens by definition should never be shared. A website being hacked should never affect me in the slightest, in the same way that me getting hacked doesn't somehow suddenly mean attackers now own Debian/Apple/FreeBSD/Microsoft. Everywhere should just have public keys. We've had the tech for decades and sufficient crypto speed on client systems since at least AES-NI. What's been missing has been glue and effort. It's frustrating every time a hack happens. We shouldn't have to care! Sigh.
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#25Hah. With the gimmicks, tricks, and dark patterns this company has pulled with consumer, what are the chances professionals would trust them with something like this?
What gimmicks, tricks, and dark patterns are you referring to? I've been using 1Password for my personal accounts for probably close to 10 years and have been happy with it. There are some things I feel are clunky, but I've never felt like I was being tricked or deceived by the company.
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#26Why would anyone trust their passwords with closed source software, when there's alternatives out there that are?
Because it works seamlessly on all of my devices and has done so for years. Never encountered any issues and syncing happens within seconds.
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#27Their messaging has been inconsistent, saying the browser will integrate with the native client. But then also that the browser only version is the future of the product.
This says nothing of the performance and UI problems the product has faced. Recently it was so bad the company was telling people to use the beta version.
I bought the legacy versions and switched to subscription last year.
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#28Here's to hoping there's finally a Hashicorp Vault competitor. It's shocking that the only mature option for runtime secret delivery is Vault after all these years. Some companies have created 'competitors', but they aren't even remotely mature (google secrets manager, aws secret manager, etc)
We use EnvKey [0], it's far friendlier to use than Vault and very mature. My only dislike is the Electron based app, but I so rarely have to open it that I can live with it. https://www.envkey.com
The founder of Envkey claimed they were working hard on V2 and self hosting 1.5 years ago[0] so it’s anyone’s guess as to why that’s been delayed/isn’t happening.
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#29Why would anyone trust their passwords with closed source software, when there's alternatives out there that are?
Because it works seamlessly on all of my devices and has done so for years. Never encountered any issues and syncing happens within seconds.
It works great to have both enabled on iPhone/iPad however. No idea why they can't fix the overlapping fields in Safari.
https://1password.community/discussion/116898/in-big-sur-saf...
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm assuming he's referring to their beginnings of being a mostly local password manager (iirc they also had a one-off lifetime purchase), to forcing people to migrate to their cloud only infrastructure with a relatively high subscription price. I'd never heard of 1Password before they were fully SaaS, but as I understand it, some of the original users were pretty upset with this move. Either way, I used to be a 1Pas…
What did you switch to if you stopped using 1Password?
I switched to Bitwarden because it's open source, and because they have a good enough Linux client. Their browser extension and desktop client doesn't come close to what 1Password provided on Mac, but it does the job.
Bitwarden isn't without its issues, but at $10 a year, and its open source nature, it's worth every penny and then some.