[image] Skiff Pages/Drive (Productivity Tools) We require both productivity tools and notebooks to be open-source This is interesting requirement considering that you recommend 1Password, a closed source password manager that arguably protects even more sensitive data. So, your stricter requir…

[image] anon48875053: 1Password is proprietary because their VC investors wouldn’t be too happy if they went open source. Also, you know why you can use SimpleLogin with Proton Pass or SimpleLogin, addy.io , Forward Email, DDG, Firefox Relay, and Fastmail with Bitwarden but you can only use Fa…

Proton Pass has received quite a lot of features in a short amount of time, especially considering that they aren’t VC-funded. The biggest new feature is probably this one: https://proton.me/blog/proton-pass-identities-biometric-authentication Where are we on this? I think it’s time to enforce thi…

+1 to the idea. No reason to not have this requirement now that there are good options all around.

I’d like to see a bit more feature parody first myself.

[image] Rasta: a bit more feature parody first myself. Parity or parody? :slight_smile:

[image] anon60350980: “bridge” - and that is reserved for desktops And requires a Premium account too to use that bridge.

One more reason to remove 1Password and enforce this criteria: [image] Mention that 1Password is not working correctly on GrapheneOS without GAPPS Site Development Hey there, I’ve been using Bitwarden on my GrapheneOS for years, without any issue. Since 1Password is reco…

Hey, just saw this response and a bunch of questions came up. [image] anon60350980: On mobile, you’re out of luck and have to find peace with their randomly updated (proprietary) mobile clients. No, thank you. Do you have a source for their mobile clients being proprietary? [image] anon6…

[image] Grayjay (Frontend) Edit 1: Idk why they’d recommend 1Password though That’s the whole point. We have Proton Pass, Bitwarden, Psono, and all the KeePass clients both with and without sync. There are enough options already.

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Parody would probably be a better fit. Bitwarden or Proton Pass features are probably enough for 99% of users.

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