{"id":389738,"date":"2021-03-17T12:09:05","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=389738"},"modified":"2021-03-17T12:11:02","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T10:11:02","slug":"dropbox-now-lets-users-store-50-passwords-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/389738-dropbox-now-lets-users-store-50-passwords-for-free.html","title":{"rendered":"Dropbox now lets users store 50 passwords for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dropbox recently <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dropbox.com\/topics\/product\/dropbox-passwords-coming-soon-for-all-users\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>announced<\/strong><\/a> that it will make its password manager available for free starting in April.<\/p>\n<p>This free-to-use option will allow users to store up to 50 passwords synced across three devices.<\/p>\n<p>Dropbox passwords will autofill passwords when prompted, provide zero-knowledge encryption, and ensure that the passwords are only known to the user.<\/p>\n<p>Like other password managers, it is available as a web browser extension, a mobile app for iOS and Android, and desktop apps for MacOS, Windows, and Linux.<\/p>\n<p>Many would consider 50 passwords to be relatively few given the number of online accounts regular Internet users have.<\/p>\n<p>This would indicate that Dropbox is purposefully steering users to sign up to its paid subscriptions.<\/p>\n<p>Granted, it is a good way to get started with improved password security without having to pay $11.99 (R179) per month for a Plus account or $19.99 (R299) per month for a Professional account.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\"><b>Timing is everything<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>The launch of Dropbox&#8217;s free password manager comes at the same time that popular choice <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.lastpass.com\/2021\/02\/changes-to-lastpass-free\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>LastPass placed a limit on free password syncing<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, users could access LastPass on a variety of different devices for free.<\/p>\n<p>Going forward, they will be forced to choose between a free plan for either mobile devices, or browsers on computers.<\/p>\n<p>Current LastPass users will have to select their preferred device type during the next login.<\/p>\n<p>If users opt to change their device type, they will have three opportunities to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Users who wish to make use of the same LastPass plan on both mobile devices and computers will have to pay $3 (R45) per month for its Premium plan or $4 (R60) per month for the Families plan, which is available for up to six people.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/389592-new-apple-ios-beta-launched-the-big-changes.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Apple iOS beta launched \u2013 The big changes<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when LastPass limited free password syncing to one device type, Dropbox announced that users to store up to 50 passwords synced across three devices for free. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341058,"featured_media":389742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1922,69016,31054],"class_list":["post-389738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-dropbox","tag-free-subscription","tag-lastpass"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389738"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341058"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389764,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389738\/revisions\/389764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}