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Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Sunday December 18, 2022 @06:49PM (#34045893)
Lastpass didn't deliver a single improvement, but they did double the yearly price
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by moonchrome on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:31PM (#34047050)
Switch to 1password or something else ? That's the nice part about subscription - when it's about to expire it's easy to switch. Just make absolutely sure you remove payment info from that scammer site - they charged me for a year after I canceled and supposedly "refunded me" when I went to support forums- but never actually saw money refund. Couldn't be bothered to go further but just the fact that they will charge post cancelation is extremely scummy.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Sunday December 18, 2022 @08:47PM (#34047199)
I already did as of last week. Waited 3 years, the software is all riddled with bugs and nothing got fixed. Insane
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by chillfox on Sunday December 18, 2022 @11:12PM (#34048385)
How do you figure moving hundreds of passwords + shared passwords (requires other people to also move) from one solution to another is easy.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by agret on Monday December 19, 2022 @03:47AM (#34049909)
Shared passwords is a hard one, they've got you by the gonads there. I moved to Bitwarden and all I did was export my password database as a csv then import it into Bitwarden and it all came across with no issues.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by Rastonbury on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:01AM (#34049993)
That's a slight strawman, the same thing applies to owned software. If I own non-subscription software and want to migrate to something newer/better, it won't be easy either. It may be even harder if either or both does not come with support.

Companies ruining their product lines is not really a good argument against subscriptions unless the company has monopoly like power and customers have no choice but to stick with inferior (these exist). If it's a sticky product, it would've been sticky either way owned or subscribed. Password managers are commodities even if it takes effort to move.

Main problem here is bosses want to go with incumbent big dog or has a relationship with sales, sticking the company to products that are subpar or going downhill. If anything subscriptions make it so that there are competitors chasing those dollars while being willing to help you migrate

Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:45PM (#34055022)
I was mostly concerned about attachments. The export to CSV worked surprisingly well, even though the CSV doesn't seem to match the spec.

To be fair, I sampled some passwords, not all of them.

For attachments, it took me almost a day, I found an official command line tool called lpass and modified the existing script to do what I needed, then I had to manually re-attach every attachment to the right passwords. A giant pain overall.

Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by esskay on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:16AM (#34051204)
Whilst also getting hacked twice. Why anyone uses, let alone pays for Lastpass is a mystery.
Re:Ask HN: Anyone tired of everything being a subscription now? by Fire-Dragon-DoL on Monday December 19, 2022 @12:42PM (#34054983)
Their data export is really bad, that was my major concern. I'll pay them for another year, since password history is not going to be exported.

Apparently there is a PR to export password history on their lpass tool, but it was never merged.