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Re:LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage by teej on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @03:47PM (#29897609)
“Totally free” is not a benefit. I want a transactional relationship with a company that will compel them to help me when things go wrong.
Re:LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage by GekkePrutser on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:18PM (#29898080)
You have the option of paying for BitWarden if you prefer :)

But everyone that I know that uses it, hosts their own anyway (I don't agree with Moxie's thing of "people don't want to host their own servers and never will - clearly not true for some people). But that was beside the point anyway, open server design means you can choose who runs your server for you.

Re:LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage by Cort3z on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @04:18PM (#29898084)
They have compelling premium plans fairly cheap. In my opinion it's a more trustworthy relationship because their software is open source and is fairly straight forward to host yourself if they start misbehaving. No such option on most alternatives.
Re:LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage by andreareina on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @09:34PM (#29901586)
I'd be ok paying for BW, the issue for me is not knowing what's going to happen if they close down or decide to pull a LastPass. So I've transferred my stuff to KeepassXC and been pretty happy with the ux. Having to deal with syncing the password database across devices is a bit of a pain but it's one of the things I absolutely need control over.
Re:LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage by Closi on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:20PM (#29898981)
Try 1Password - Great app and I can vouch that they help you when things go wrong (because things went wrong for me and they went above and beyond to help).
Re:LastPass appears to be holding users' passwords hostage by blakesley on Tuesday January 11, 2022 @05:09PM (#29898824)
Previous commenter should have said "freemium" instead