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1Password vs BitWarden
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this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
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I do think 1Password is a bit more polished than Bitwarden, and auto-fills more reliably for me (depending on the website, of course). I use 1Password for work, but choose Bitwarden for personal use because I value an open-source solution that I COULD self-host if I wanted to. I don't self-host, because I'm lazy, but I COULD if I wanted to. It's also a very cheap family plan compared to 1Password, I'm still trying to convince all my old people to use a damn password manager! But one could argue that using 1Password's more polished interface instead of Bitwarden might make my life easier....
Haha I hear you re: the old people. My parents use a notepad, and they scribble out old passwords and write down the new ones. It’s beyond archaic. And my dad has dementia which is just a recipe for disaster.
I’ve added them to my 1Password family and setup a separate vault for them to use, and I have a few of their key passwords shared with my vault in case they lock themselves out of important accounts.
But I’m sure if I did decide to switch to Bitwarden I could move them over pretty easily.
My mom took to it pretty easily, but then again, someone changed her Amazon password and it took ages for her to convince Amazon to unlock her account, so she was pretty motivated to take steps to prevent something like that from happening again.
Yeah that's my experience as well, it takes an event like that to scare them into taking password management seriously. I guess I'll just have to wait until my various olds have all been hacked or had their identities stolen, and THEN maybe they'll let me sign them up for Bitwarden. Eyeroll.
Yup. "It's too much work to do preventative stuff" followed by "No one could have predicted this".
A tale as old as time.
I bought my wife and I the family plan for 1password. The incident for me that got her to start using it was when her phone died. She couldn't remember her Gmail password and was only currently logged in on her phone. She couldn't remember her backup email passwords either. Somehow we were able to unlock her email with mine with a 72 hour delay or something crazy. It took so much effort to not be like "I told you so" but she pretty much told herself the same thing lol. Since then she uses it and loves it.
Right, that's the beauty of using a GOOD password manager, whether it's Bitwarden or 1Password. They both make it relatively easy to export and import all your passwords.