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"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private.

All event data will be de-identified and processed in aggregate before it’s used for analysis. "

It sounds like they plan on releasing the technical details in the coming days/weeks. I'm curious how its de-identified and processed.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Sigh. What’s a good alternative for iOS?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I switched from 1Pass (no subscriptions, please) to BitWarden recently, and I'm super happy with it ❤️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're not willing to trust what they say about the anonymity of the telemetry system, or to opt out, then I think you wouldn't be happy trusting them with all your passwords in the first place!

If you're willing to stick to Safari, then I think using Apple Keychain is best, especially since they'll be adding sharing this year.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah this is what I don’t get. They already hold your most precious secrets and now you don’t trust them with a telemetry system?! Seems an odd order of concerns to me.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Telemetry, even scrubbed, can provide enough meta data to de-anonomize the user. If the goal is to reduce your threat vectors, than it's a valid concern.

Given data breeches are increasing, the less data that is collected the better.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Come on - this is 1Password we are talking about; I think they’ve earned a little bit of goodwill given their past behaviour. Transparency is key. Keep in mind that they could do almost whatever they want without telling us.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This seems transparent, well thought out, and opt-in. The headline concerned me but once I read the article this seems fine. I moved from LastPass to 1Password because of the horrible communication around breaches in the last few years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m happy with enpass myself for s few years now. it has all kind of sync options and wifi p2p sync if you want to be offline. they offer subscription shit, but luckily also a normal software license to buy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

You can use keepassXC and "self-host" your passwords on any cloud-storage you want (it's just a file after all), but if you are using 1Pass at the moment, I don't see an opt-in anonymized telemetry system as a reason to switch.