Showerthought: I used to think paying for a password manager was dumb

Then I spent $40 a year on one and it caught a reused password on a site that got hacked last week. Anyone have a cheaper alternative they like?

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3 Comments

logan_robinson852mo ago

That $40 is cheap insurance, honestly.

diana3146d ago

Yeah, Bitwarden has been working fine for me. It's free unless you want the premium features like file attachments, which is like $10 a year. I switched from LastPass after that breach a few years back and haven't looked back. The auto-fill on my phone and browser works well enough that I barely think about it. Just make sure you write down your master password somewhere safe, because losing that is a whole different problem.

wright.dakota2mo ago

Exactly, it's not just about the one hack. The real cost is the time you waste resetting passwords everywhere after a breach, plus the stress of wondering what else you reused. That forty bucks buys back a lot of mental space. Once you stop having to remember any of them, you realize how much brain power it was actually taking up.