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I have been following this company for like 10 years now, if not more. 1Password is anything but a typical software company. When they were small, I forget the year, they emailed us (each) six licenses of 1Password as a thanksgiving gift. A small gesture, but clearly the courage to leave that much money on the table for a small startup is laudable. On the other hand, each of my friends who got it "free" wouldn't have considered any password manager (free or not). They had the uphill task of creating the market. I am sure all the recent password leaks helps a bit.

They sponsored Gophercon in 2018(?). I didn't even know they use Go.

Good luck to them and hopefully they will keep us from password disasters of the future. Now, if only I could convince everyone to use a password manager...

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On Nov 23, 2010 (still have the e-mail in my inbox), they sent a "Happy Thanksgiving and 3 Gifts For You!" with free downloads of 2 books and links to give away a license of 1Password for Mac, 1Password for Windows, and Knox for Mac.

Small touch, but my office recently starting 1Password in large part because most of the competition only offer USD billing. While we can pay for services in USD, it's unpalatable given none of our own income or accounting is done in USD.

How did you do that? I can’t find a way to pay 1Password in € rather than $. Every year my bank is stealing^W taking a fee because 1Password is billing in USD.

I went through 1password.ca, 1password.eu seems to direct to pricing page with € pricing.

Fair warning: I work for 1Password

These also have another distinct change beyond simply pricing, they're actually hosted in those regions. So .ca is hosted in Canada and .eu is hosted in the European Union.

Kyle

Thanks, I didn’t know there was a 1password.eu. Unfortunately for me there’s no automatic way to change region [1].

[1]: https://support.1password.com/regions/#change-your-region

The coverage for even the best password managers miss a ton of key touchpoints where they'd be useful. I use mine very reluctantly. This attitude of 'password managers for everything!' doesn't make any sense to me when half the login prompts I encounter aren't supported

I got the opportunity to try it for free from my friend who got it via work, but it wasn't really as good as lastpass...

It's really not constructive saying something like that without substantiating it.

Why was it not as good as lastpass?

I didn't feel it needed substantiation because I'm interested in discussing 1pass vs lastpass on a business level, not a technical level. I tested it over a year ago, so any complaint could well be out of date. I found it to have less features, was more buggy on android, and didn't really detect usernames and passwords on forms as well as lastpass. I used it for a few days and just couldn't come to terms with it.

I'm really surprised by that. I eventually abandoned Lastpass for 1password around a year ago because I couldn't handle Lastpass's bugs any longer. (And those bugs had eroded my confidence in their ability to keep passwords secure.) I'm also on Android, but the difference is probably that I use Firefox. LP has treated Firefox as an afterthought for quite a while now, with numerous serious bugs languishing for months or even years. Since moving to 1pw I've had very few complaints. The autofill on Android isn't perfect, but it's better than Lastpass was. And the desktop product is flawless aside from a bit of an Apple-centric design.

I use ff exclusively on android and pc/linux. I found 1pass to be inferior on android, but I also use lineageos so maybe that had something to do with it. I dunno, it might be worth another go but lastpass seems to be good enough for me. Even though it does have bugs, as long as I can get the passwords when I need it it's not a big deal for me. The big deal is making sure all forms capture and update passwords as needed, and lastpass seemed to be far better when I was messing with it.

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