rosepark•16d agoMost Upvoted

Threw $200 at a password manager that locked me out last week

I got burned by paying for a fancy password manager subscription for a whole year upfront and then their sync feature glitched out and I couldn't get into any of my accounts. Took me 3 days of resetting everything manually and I still lost access to an old email with important docs. Has anyone else had a subscription just stop working and cost you more in time than the fee?

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scott.alex16d agoMost Upvoted

Double down on what @milesbarnes is getting at. The whole "peace of mind" thing is a trap. You pay upfront thinking you're buying reliability, but all you're really buying is a company's promise they'll keep their servers running. When that promise breaks, you're stuck holding the bag. I stopped using paid password managers completely after a similar incident. Now I just use a plain text file on an encrypted drive. It's not fancy but it's never glitched out on me and cost me days of my life. The subscription model is a joke for something this important.

milesbarnes16d ago

Used to think paying for a password manager was worth the peace of mind but after reading this I'm honestly rethinking that whole approach lol.

david_walker9716d ago

Wait, didn't you just feel that same sinking feeling I did when you read that? I had the same exact thing happen with a paid manager where I lost everything and had to reset half my accounts, never going back to that nonsense now lol.