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A lot of comments don't seem to acknowledge the importance of UX to leveling up security. Historically, security products have had terrible UX with everyone working around these and introducing more risks. 1Password is doing a great service here by making security simple and reduces our overall attack surface.

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I wholeheartedly agree with the UX comment, and for the "leveling up security" part specifically, I'll point out that 1P 8 now has a "generate horse-battery-stable 'security question' answers" button, which is about as close to the intersection of good UX and good security as I can imagine

My experience with Bitwarden is that their browser extension is gravely broken, which is a subset of UX, but crosses over into "how is this not a 'stop all work and fix it' bug?": https://github.com/bitwarden/browser/issues/1620

I have a paid Bitwarden subscription, because I wanted to give it a fair shake, but based on my experience thus far it'll be years before they catch up to AgileBits

Bitwarden, over the last few years, has been focusing on enterprise features and has largely ignored more basic stuff. It doesn’t seem like that’s going to change quickly, since the pace of development seems slow.

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