2/23/2021: Finding a new password manager

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Last week, the makers of LastPass delivered an ultimatum to those who are using the password manager for free.Unless those users start paying $36 per year by March 16, they’ll be limited to one device type—mobile or computer—per account. That means free users will have to choose between accessing their passwords on either a laptop and a phone, which isn’t much of a choice for a lot of people.

I’m one of those users, having signed up for LastPass back in 2018, and while I’m not fundamentally opposed to paying for useful services (ahem), I don’t like being forced to pay for something when a company can’t make its freemium business model work. With password managers in particular, there are plenty of other options, both free and paid, that work just as well as LastPass did.

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