It's been 7 years, but I'm finally making a switch away from 1Password as my password manager. Why now? 👇 👇 ➡️ 1Password is STILL a great password manager, but... ➡️ I've been lured over by the privacy features of Proton Pass (a product of Proton ) ➡️ Proton Pass is open source, includes email aliases and has a free tier that 1Password can't match. But here's the FULL explanation of why I switched: https://lnkd.in/g3hjbXmp *this is not sponsored #passwordmanager #cybersecurity #onlinesecurity
One of your reasons for choosing Pass is puzzling. You mention the free tier as one reason for choosing Proton Pass. That is a great reason for many people to consider but not for you. As a Proton user I suspect you are already a paying user. The free tier has zero relevance to you. The email alias is another head scratcher. It is part of email. I believe Proton linked aliases to Proton Pass as a value add to lure customers. Aliases as a feature should not require Proton Pass to work. Anyone with Proton has to deal with logging into Pass just to view all the aliases. To me that is a pain in the neck.
Open Source is a major green flag. It drives the Development Community as a whole and you can check the security and marketing claims against whats really implemented. People will never review each and every release, but you can easily check if the developers understand their business. Something crucial when it comes to cryptography.
Proton Pass is not Open Source! Sure, some of their clients are OSS, but that's meaningless since you can't use them without Proton's servers or acc. Also, you can't host Proton Pass for yourself, as you can some other OSS password managers.
is there a way to migrate the passwords that doesn't require manual re-entry?
Interesting, thinking of doing the same
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1mo1Password does have parts of 1Password open-sourced and they fully support open-source projects by giving free versions to teams that create open-source software. For me it’s the only mature password-manager out there that is fully secure as well. And currently I’m using Proton for mail and vpn but I don’t like their lack of focus: they have a suite but none of their products are really finished. For example: bad WYSIWYG editor in the mobile apps, no calendar app for iPad etc. The list is long. Instead of adding new products, they should better start polishing existing ones. And if you need to mass-deploy a password manager via an MDM with app config settings, 1Password is the best product out there.