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I still can’t bring myself to pay $5 a month in perpetuity for a password manager. None of these saas companies ever price single user licenses below $5, even though $1 or $2 would be much more reasonable.
Listening to music costs $10 per month. Netflix is $15. Surely securing the keys to your digital life is worth at least $5.
The reasonable person inside me wants to use a password manager, yet the paranoid in my brain is terrified. I read all those texts explaining why password managers are better, yet I am still afraid. I keep thinking in attack vectors such as someone compromising the Play Store and submitting a malicious app or other similar stuff. I even have a Bitwarden account and have some passwords stored on it. I also considered…
- Email provider's (it's not Google)
- Domain registrar's
- 3 of my main bank account passwords
- Password of my password manager and KeePass db
- Cryptomator volume's password (I keep that Volume in Dropbox)
- Password of my laptop and phone (both 12-20 char long alphanumeric ones)
- PIN of my 2FA app
(I keep practising entering these passwords on my phone/laptop regularly)
Everything else are randomly generated strings by BitWarden and saved there.
Sometimes I have some hints that only I can make sense of and save it in KeepPass database.
In my opinion, it should be a bare minimum for something as important as a password manager to be free software. Others have mentioned Bitwarden and Keepass in this thread, both of which meet that criteria, but personally I'll stick with pass since I don't need a GUI.
Huh, you are saying that something that is so important you want for free, and that the company building this product for you should forgo money and work simply for free? Wouldn't the opposite make far more sense that something that is so important you should pay 'more' for? They are free options that you are welcome to, but for people who want more they pay for it.
I would like to throw out Bitwarden out there. Cross platforms, works on everything and can be self hosted if you so desire.
Bitwarden is great, but I'm getting frustrated at their ridiculous excuses for not implementing fixes. For the longest time bitwarden has been broken in the firefox's private browsing after mozilla deprecated some apis due to security concerns. They've given alternatives but they are just refusing to fix it, to the point of basically saying mozilla needs to fix the issue. What's sad is a similar mechanism is used in…
Right Click on the field > Bitwarden > Autofill
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Agreed. I have been using Bitwarden for over 3 years now, paid premium user as well. No big issues, the odd bug a few times but all fixed promptly and didn't impact my ability to access my data. While the Bitwarden apps are not as "pretty" as 1Password's I find them a little simpler to use. Obviously UI design is highly subjective though so your thoughts may be very different :) Anyway yes I highly recommend Bitwarde…
While almost everything is great about Bitwarden, the 5-8 second delay when performing a search is ridiculous (considering I have about 100 records), and I'm considering paying for a better maintained alternative.
Hearing about people using 1password, etc, I get an uncomfortable smug feeling, similar to when i hear that someone is coding on notepad.exe :(
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Bitwarden is great, but I'm getting frustrated at their ridiculous excuses for not implementing fixes. For the longest time bitwarden has been broken in the firefox's private browsing after mozilla deprecated some apis due to security concerns. They've given alternatives but they are just refusing to fix it, to the point of basically saying mozilla needs to fix the issue. What's sad is a similar mechanism is used in…
Bitwarden works in private mode. Right Click on the field > Bitwarden > Autofill
Otherwise it pops up bitwarden in their top right and says it isn't available in private mode for this browser
So after ignoring Linux users for 10 years they finally decided to grant us their support. I feel my money are better spent supporting vendors who support Linux early on and do not view it as an afterthought. I will stick with LastPass.
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That does not come with a simple way to have your passwords and automatically though. A better alternative in my opinion would be Bitwarden.
> That does not come with a simple way to have your passwords and automatically though. I suspect a typo, but could you describe the problem in more detail? I'm using KeepassXC, and while there are a few challenges around workflow, there's nothing insurmountable.
Simple as in you type a password and it is synced, instead of having to manually copy the file to each location.
Definitely not insurmountable and I used that system for a while as well, but something like Bitwarden, which I now use, is just easier.