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1Password is better and unlikely to be acquired. They are quite profitable on their own.

They did however take $200 million in VC funding in November: https://blog.1password.com/accel-partnership/

According to Accel that was more about the contacts offered by Accel, with a nice side effect of getting lots of news coverage for a $200 million series A.

I am skeptical that one takes $200 million and it's still more about the contacts. After you've gotten the contacts, there's still a $200 million elephant in the room.

(Personal Opinion): I'm gonna vouch against 1Password.

Some months ago I tried migrating from LastPass to 1Password, had a lot of headaches with the >having to run an executable in the background< as well as the horrid UI on the control panel.

During testing, I was also constantly being prompted to pay for the thing, (trial was just started!). At least importing worked (kinda, some non-form fills [CC, SSN] didn't import or just would get dumped on random places all over their UI).

The key-management thing they have for the safe is really annoying, having to keep a big string around whenever you need to log in somewhere real quick just doesn't work. (One thing is having OTP codes on your phone, other is needing to type a big, random, safe unlock string).

With that said, due to this acquisition of LogMeIn, I'll be looking into alternatives (Mainly Bitwarden as it's been in the "market" for a while already and seems to be recommended). Probably not gonna move yet but better be prepared.

They have recently taken quite a bit of VC money though.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/11/14/fourteen-years-after-launc...

And they talked about why in more detail here: https://rework.fm/venture-capital-and-control-with-david-tea...

Edit: Fixed typo. Would also like to add that their use of VC money appears less risky than one could assume.

Thanks for the link. I'll try to find the time to listen to it.

Regardless, I don't feel personally comfortable with having my passwords in custody of a VC funded enterprise. I am looking into start self-hosting something like Bitwarden in the near future.

Nice option, will make the move over now I think..

Out of interest before I go and google/write it, is there any 'automatic-as-possible' transfer tools/scripts ?

The 1Password cli is a nice touch I must admit.

Heads up, I work for 1Password

We have guides here for migration from other password managers:

https://support.1password.com/import/

Let me know if that helps or if you run into any trouble.

Kyle

1Password Security Team

Why is 1password unlikely to be acquired? I’m sure its owners would like to be billionaires just like everyone else. They’ve already accepted VC funding, and VCs definitely want to be billionaires.

And doesn't work on Linux.

Their browser extension is a non-shitty experience and works cross-platform.

It does: https://support.1password.com/explore/linux/

There is even a cli: https://1password.com/downloads/command-line/

Not having a native gui is not the same as "not working".

Sweet! I used 1Password for years and then went LastPass for Linux support. At the time only the recovery mode worked to the best of my knowledge. This was in the 1Password 4 days.

I'm a happy 1password X user on Linux for the past 1.5 years or so!

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