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Sucks that LastPass has these significant problems. From purely a product perspective it's pretty good. I used it for years quite happily as it kept myself and wife in sync with all of our accounts/passwords across all of our devices and browsers. LastPass is one of only a handful of products that truly works on virtually all platforms and browsers. Windows and Mac, home and corporate devices, mobile, you name it.


> LastPass is one of only a handful of products that truly works

“Truly works” except for the one critical feature that is the sole reason people use it. It does not keep your passwords safe.

Doesn’t matter how nice their Windows app is, or how smooth the animations on iOS are, or how well it’s browser plugins work.

It fails at its only real task, safely storing your credentials.


1Password works everywhere too, and it works much better than LastPass from everything I've heard and seen.

1Password also actually encrypts your entire vault, and it uses a strong, generated secret key in addition to your password, so even if a user does not use a strong password, their vault would still be very hard to crack.


The new addon for Firefox doesn't just work but instead is unable to match the current URL to entries. You have to switch off the "Advanced autofill" which is automatically turned on nearly every day. The android autofill doesn't "just work" but that may Android's fault.




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