![]() ![]() ![]() The phone masking services alone is worth what I pay for everything. With premium you get quicker customer service response and credit card masking services. All the features I mentioned above are free. And it’s the only (to my knowledge) app like it that was created and developed by a long standing advocate of individual privacy, and is still owned and operated by its creator company, Abine, Inc. Does it work better than anything I’ve ever used? Yup. They’re also partnered with Duck Duck Go and you can search and browse the web right from the Blur app. I’ve not yet seen another service that gives a password manager on its level as well as phone masking, email, making and a tracker blocker that blocks EVERY single ad on both my PC and my phone, and sports a troubleshooting/operation AI that allows me to customize every aspect of Blur on the fly. The breadth of services available for free stacked with consistently great customer service, plus what was/is available to premium members for a paltry ~40 bucks a year added ridiculous value to a service that in my opinion is already amazing. I was an F2P member for two years before going premium as a former sales rep I’m a hard sell. Blur is heads and tails above most of the best PW managers out there in terms of customer service, both for free and premium accounts, and simply blows every other in the same niche out of the water in terms of all the services available, again both to free and premium accounts. ![]() is and has always been a privacy advocate and developed Blur (formerly Do Not Track me, or DNT) to block website trackers. I moved from last pass to Blur the first time last pass changed ownership, about 4 or 5 years ago. Despite increasing disenchantment, it does get the passwords and logons right (albeit, not with original ease). However, ‘devil you know’ principal applies. That done, I removed references to the account in Lastpass. I tested logon again and received an error message indicating the account had been closed. Days later I contacted the site administrators and demanded account removed. Not long after the breach I updated password. Security check also repeated advise of a website security breach to a website in 2017. Two numbers at the same in each but they do not appear together. The email password it says it is similar to is 12 character long, mostly letter, mixed case some numbers and no special characters. My Master passwords is 14 characters, high proportion of number some letters, mixed case and special characters. Security challenge keeps telling me “Your master password is very weak because it is similar to a password in your LastPass vault”. Automated password update fails on some sites. I used to be able to set it to automatic logon and every site did exactly that. Has LastPass improved since I stared using it years ago? No. The issue will most likely turn out be be nothing but one more over-blown mini-dramas that happen far too freqeuntly in the software industry. An unstated issue is a concern but past experience indicates software companies sort these out fairly quickly. I did notice a background update fairly recently (puts an unwanted shortcut on the desktop every time it updates). Not having the extension in the webstore is only a problem if you need to set it up again. You can then store the database anywhere including Google Drive. If you want a model similar to yours, use Keepass (which is only officially available on Windows, while other forks of it are available for macOS, Linux, Android, etc) which is open source and has passed an audit. Not as convenient as Safeincloud but Bitwarden is open sources and allows you to host everything if you want that). If you use Safeincloud, you can switch to Bitwarden (which although you can use their servers, there is also a on-premise version where you host it on your own server. That said, both are proprietary unlike Bitwarden (though Lastpass and Bitwarden have received audits and Lastpass extension can be analyzed as it is javascript). Both Lastpass and Safeincloud encrypt your data on the device before sending/storing it in servers anyways. You are depending on sync capabilities by using a server (Google Drive) just as much as Lastpass servers for syncing between devices. You also have access offline with Lastpass… Of course, the redesign that happened a while ago is annoying and the fact is that it is sold to a private company, but this is not a complaint. ![]()
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