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Password managers are as important as adblockers in this day and age imo
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I've never used a password manager before. I use 2FA or Passkeys on anything that supports them.
I use bitwarden, and have a random password for every account. Moreso I also have a random email for each service I sign up for, using Cloudflare email routes.
It gives me the peace of mind that when one account is compromised I just reset the password, in case of spam: change the email address, and continue on with my day.
For work I use KeePass and 1password, but I do prefer Bitwarden due to its price. 1Password is more feature rich with it's types of credentials you can store, however. It's a nice-to-have that I can store TOTP as well and that I can share passwords with my partner
One another Bitwarden user chiming in!
I started with LastPass but they started making things difficult enough on the mobile side that I decided to jump ships. Bitwarden also is a smoother app to use - LastPass felt clunkier (I've used only the free side on both).
It's a must if you want secure passwords. My gf doesn't use one - her passwords are all re-used variations of l33tsp34k that are pretty easy to guess (I can get into her accounts in a few tries if I need to). But also she forgets them often.
I use iOS, but I will say Bitwarden all the way, even if it’s implementation is not perfect on iOS. I’m sure it’s even better on Android.
I use keeper which appears to be one of the less popular ones if the comments are anything to go by here but it's served me well, the browser extension and android app are pretty good too with only a few websites flaking out and requiring copy pasting of password
I'm using KeePassXC and syncing the db over cloud storage, but sometimes updating the db gets tricky if it is contemporary opened on more devices, one instance in each different app (e.g. mobile and desktop at the same time, db stored on nextcloud/GDrive/OneDrive or even just synced over syncthing). I'd prefer the apps would simply access the db like the FF Extension does, while the db file is opened only by a single server, always running app somewhere reachable.
That's why I'm also always thinking about maybe I should switch to Bitwarden, which is equally reliable as security goes and even more usable, but then I get a bit off put the SaaS nature of it, and its limitations too, for instance even the paid tier has only 1GB of storage space, while I use KeepassXC as vault to store a lot of legal documents too, which in time could easily gets to 1GB, but on the other hand its server nature approach makes it a lot more usable on the user end.
Went from LastPass to Dashlane to self-hosted Bitwarden. $40/year for myself and a couple family members
I've been rocking the new proton pass, had good luck with it so far.
As many others have said, I use BitWarden and really like it. I used LastPass for years and years, but I switched when the price of premium literally tripled and they needed the free tier to being almost unusable.
We (MSP) moved from LastPass to Keeper Security and love it. I switched my personal stuff over to it as well.
Moved to Bitwarden from LastPass this year. Never looked back!
I held off on using a password manager for a long time. I used an open source one for my buisness for a while but almost lost the file in a computer failure, lucky I had a backup.... . somewhere.
After that I looked at a cloud option and finally settled on one, then the business died down and I kept using it for my personal stuff. I can't believe I didn't use one earlier. Life is so much easier now, no need to go between my bad password, Medium, and strong. Everything just gets a random password now and no need to worry about a string of 2fa messages hitting my phone when a password gets pwned.