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I don't understand why anyone uses a proprietary password manager.
by suprjami 4y ago
I don't understand why anyone uses a proprietary password manager.
- chromanoid 4y agoI want to pay for it to increase the probability people can work on it in a sustainable way focussing on my interests at least to some extent. I also want a fully managed product working on the devices I use. I am not sure since I didn't look for another product for a long time now. Is there something that provides the above while still being open source?
- worstestes 4y agoWhile lacking in some features, Bitwarden is a great project!
- lxgr 4y agoBitwarden should fit these requirements. It‘s also an all around much better product, in my experience.
- nxmnxm99 4y agoUnfortunately 1Password is way better than Bitwarden from a usability perspective (autofill alone is a gamechanger).
- Aeolun 4y agoIsn’t that one of the very things that make these things insecure? Bitwarden doesn’t do anything until I explicitly ask it to.
- lxgr 4y agoTrue, it definitely has the best autofill of the popular options, but in my experience, Bitwarden is 90% there. Personally, I‘d rather use something open source that feels less like a lock-in in the long term over those remaining 10%, but both are definitely great options.
- Z_I_F_F 4y agoBitwarden has autofill
- sidewndr46 4y agoI used LastPass at work because work told me to. That was basically it.
- ThePadawan 4y agoThem being proprietary means they can invest in marketing and UX and QA. That's how you get a company of 500 employees to buy your product that "just works" in all browsers, operating systems and mobile devices over a free one that needs every single user to fiddle with a custom solution. Spending $5 per user and month is way way way cheaper than wasting 1h of an employee's time even once.
- nvarsj 4y agoBecause we value our time? Self hosting is a time sink.