But is it the best option? People often think they don’t need a password manager because their browser does it just fine, thank you very much. Vivaldi is another I’d add to my trusted list.Your browser seems like a safe and convenient place to store passwords. I’d place my trust in them ahead of many other browser makers. Firefox developer Mozilla has a solid record when it comes to protecting user privacy. Having said I’d avoid browser password managers, if you were going down that path, I’d consider Firefox Lockwise. (To be clear, there’s no suggestion advertisers can read passwords. It would be hugely hypocritical of me to describe this as a drawback - you’re reading this article on a site that is partly funded by ads - but people have different tolerance levels to advertising, especially when it’s wrapped around something as sensitive as password information. The only thing to note here is that it shows ads to fund the service. LogMeOnce also offers a free account - oddly labelled Premium in its pricing plans. That doesn’t sound like a huge barrier - it’s rare you’re going to need mobile and desktop password managers open at the same time - but it’s worth noting. The big limitation of the free account is that you can only be logged into one device at a time. NordPass offers a free version of its password manager, which syncs across both desktop and mobile. There are other free password managers out there, although I’ll add the caveat here that I’ve not thoroughly tested any of the below. If you see that occurring in your exported passwords, use a text editor (such as Notepad in Windows) to find and replace all those altered values. That means, for example, a & might be turned into & which will break your passwords. It’s worth noting the warning on that page that some users have reported a bug where special characters in passwords are transposed into HTML-encoded values. If you’re a LastPass customer, you can export your saved passwords and form fills into Bitwarden by following the instructions published here. That sends a very strong signal that free accounts will remain functional for the foreseeable. The GIF embedded above promises: “All your logins, all your devices, all the time, always free”. Is there a risk Bitwarden will follow LastPass and eventually force free users to take a paid account? You can never say never, but given the company put out the tweet below in response to LastPass’s changes, it would seem highly unlikely it’s about to hamper free accounts. I’ve written about the brilliant Bitwarden before: it’s free, open source and it works with almost any device you can name.īitwarden does offer a premium account ($10 per year) which unlocks extra features, but I’ve been running on a free account for well over a year and it’s perfectly functional without these extras. My recommended course of action is to switch to one of LastPass’s rivals, such as Bitwarden. This should prevent thieves getting access to your entire account if they manage to get hold of your password, as you’ll need to confirm a login on a new device from your smartphone, for example. If you do choose to go down this route, at least make sure you switch on two-factor authentication. If you store your, say, banking passwords on a computer, do you really want your kids having access to that? Browsers are often shared on computers too.
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