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1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by mingus88 »

qubex wrote: post #139
mingus88 wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Its not a black and white situation for me Security software? Hosting my data? Sure, I understand there are ongoing costs to provide the service. One-time licenses tells me the maintainers will not be incentivized to keep my lights on forever. Service will suffer eventually. See Plex. I paid once a decade ago and it’s not even the same thing anymore. They push live TV, always online features, etc

I still run Excel 2007 because as long as it can read and write .xlsx files that my Mathematica models can ingest and output I’m good with that. Every version of Mathematica has a perennial license, even if a new version comes out every year. I want the cloud service? That’s a monthly extra, and I’m cool with that. Office 365, where they randomly decide to shove Copilot down my throat and I lose all ability to edit d…

Yeah, I’m old enough to remember buying boxed software. It was a veritable product in every sense.

Your o365 example just shows that even with stodgy old office suite software, we pay rent to be the product. Copilot has to be added everywhere so a VP will get a promotion showing how many new users they have (for features nobody wants but are forced into paying for)

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by Valodim »

quacker wrote: post #126

My family pricing went up by 20%, from $59.88 USD to $71.88 per year. I like 1Password a lot. I've used it for 10 years. It's never lost a single thing, and I don't recall any downtime that impacted me. It's easy to setup and 99% hassle free. Works on my various device types (windows, mac, ios). It supports passkeys and 2FA codes. I like having shared and private vaults. I love the ability to share an auto-expiring,…

You mean they didn't increase prices in 10 years? A 2016 dollar is not the same thing as a 2026 dollar

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by qubex »

mingus88 wrote: post #141
qubex wrote: post #139

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still run Excel 2007 because as long as it can read and write .xlsx files that my Mathematica models can ingest and output I’m good with that. Every version of Mathematica has a perennial license, even if a new version comes out every year. I want the cloud service? That’s a monthly extra, and I’m cool with that. Office 365, where they randomly decide to shove Copilot down my throat and I lose all ability to edit d…

Yeah, I’m old enough to remember buying boxed software. It was a veritable product in every sense. Your o365 example just shows that even with stodgy old office suite software, we pay rent to be the product. Copilot has to be added everywhere so a VP will get a promotion showing how many new users they have (for features nobody wants but are forced into paying for)

So… we should just pony up the monthly or yearly fee and let that VP get his promotion because he extorted hundreds of millions in exchange for something about we desirable we Clippy and with the mental capacity of Bob?

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by rlpb »

JavaWing wrote: post #138
firefax wrote: post #107

I've had good experiences with KeePassXC. In addition to being able to store your passwords, it can ingest TOTP seeds. And finally, it's open source and cross platform. (I originally stumbled upon it because it was the only KeePass implementation that tried to look like a native MacOS app) This is a killer feature for me, since apparently iOS backups do not backup your TOTP generators in Google Authenticator, which I…

Is KeePassXC better than Bitwarden?

I use both (for different purposes) and prefer the native app (and KeePassDX on Android), but note that it is a local app and doesn't sync. You need to use something else (eg. Syncthing or Dropbox) for that.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by jrochkind1 »

kantselovich wrote: post #74
jrochkind1 wrote: post #22

The email I got with individual plan went from $35.88 USD / year to $47.88 USD The new price then is $4/month. From $3/month. (So still 33% increase, similar to family plan in OP]. I found it very cheap before, which is part of what encouraged me to get it in the first place, vs trying to do something free. Would I have signed up for it originally at this price? I don't know. But it's not enough to make me switch to…

I'm building an alternative called Lockstep: KeePass-like local-first password vault but with build sync https://github.com/lockstepvault-hq/lockstep Sync requires a server, however server does not see any secret data, it is only used to relay encrypted hash-chained ops log between devices. It's intended to be self-hosting friendly - server is single binary backed by SQLite. It's project is early-alfa, CLI app, Keepa…

That sounds awesome, and I personally want to self-host nothing. I do enough of that at work.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by imfing »

A very recent frustration from them was this: https://x.com/youyuxi/status/2005904473332564339?s=20 - their Chrome extension was breaking code block rendering on a lot of websites for weeks. The issue had already been reported in their community forum, but it didn’t seem to gain much traction until Evan You mentioned it publicly on Twitter. Only then did it feel like it was taken seriously.

That experience, combined with a ~33% price increase, makes the direction a bit concerning, and feels like it’s going in a down hill...

That said, it’s genuinely difficult to move my family off 1Password. I just wish there are stronger competitors.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by puppycodes »

neillyons wrote: post #128

I stopped my 1Password subscription last year and started using Apple Passwords. The user experience is great if you switch to Safari with fingerprint login.

Considering you can very easily be forced to login with your fingerprint by cops, bad actors etc... I would (personally) avoid doing this.

Accessing your laptop is one thing, accessing all of your passwords for every app with a fingerprint is scary.

Re: 1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

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Post by daringrain32781 »

imfing wrote: post #146

A very recent frustration from them was this: https://x.com/youyuxi/status/2005904473332564339?s=20 - their Chrome extension was breaking code block rendering on a lot of websites for weeks. The issue had already been reported in their community forum, but it didn’t seem to gain much traction until Evan You mentioned it publicly on Twitter. Only then did it feel like it was taken seriously. That experience, combined…

Their Linux app crashes half the time trying to launch, and I have to resort to the browser app. It's been like this for at least the 1 year I've been a customer. And, Their browser app also has a horrendous impact on browser performance. I always thought Firefox was just kind of slow..but it was 1password bogging it down all along.
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