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> I recently swapped from LastPass to Bitwarden because LastPass subscription went from 12 USD/year to 24 USD/year (a 100% price increase) without reason or ben
by fencepost 9y ago
> I recently swapped from LastPass to Bitwarden because LastPass subscription went from 12 USD/year to 24 USD/year (a 100% price increase) without reason or benefits
Ah, I'd missed that price increase since my renewal was a couple months before it, but I saw that "jack the price" from Logmein in 2015 and I'm pretty sure it wasn't a one time jump. Cost them a bunch of users in a community I'm on where people were seeing their prices go from $300/year to several thousand for no improvements because they wanted to focus more on the more profitable enterprise area.
Guess I should start looking at options now so I'm not doing so with a looming deadline (and probably another price increase to at least match the 1Password subscription price).
- Fnoord 9y agoYes, I also looked into options. The options I considered were Bitwarden and the CLI open source solutions such as pass. I don't mind paying for a service like this, but it has to be reasonable. Bitwarden is programmed by a "Microsoftie" (that used to be more of a problem back in the 00s and 90s than it is in the 10s). Its programmed in .NET, they host at Azure, and they use MS-SQL for data storage. But that's about the only negative thing I got against it. Because you don't have to store in the cloud (and you can even run the Ruby code native on *NIX now). Ideally I'd prefer to have say GPGed databases of my passwords and my calendar on one or two clouds (like say Google Drive; 15 GB should be enough) and have seemless integration with Android, iOS, macOS, Linux, Windows but that isn't feasible. You'll end up with browser extension because it is practical. One threat model they don't protect against is hostile JavaScript code. All browser extensions suffer from that problem though.