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I have been using LasPass since many years ago. There's an extension for Chrome and for Firefox. On Android I use the app and even though experience is not that "automatic" it works. I am surprised nobody mentioned LastPass is there any reason I should know?

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LastPass was bought by LogMeIn, which raised some eyebrows. More recently, LogMeIn was bought by private equity vultures. That raises alarm bells for more people.

It was that plus experiencing a lot of bugginess in their apps that got me to switch to 1Password. It's been a huge improvement.

I started moving the day LogMeIn acquired them. Lastpass used to have a very open policy of notification for potential security issues and I trusted them as much as one can trust a SaaS vendor. IIRC LogMeIn completely ignored a number of security issues in their applications and refused to acknowledge vulnerabilities.

I moved from LastPass due to various security concerns, but in Chrome/Linux 1Password is a worse experience. LastPass is just smarter about creating accounts and assigning new passwords, or updating if you change them.

Can't talk about security concerns, but my experience is exactly opposite. Using LastPass is pain, while 1password works like a charm.

I've been using it for years ago. There are a few annoyances I have with it, mostly on mobile integration, but not enough for me to try to migrate to another platform.

I'd be curious is someone could explain why it would be worth the effort to transition from LastPass to some other provider.

Nah you're fine. There are other good alternatives but Lastpass does the job and that's fine. They do have a lastpass-cli which is quite nice to have as well. It operates somewhat like pass.

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