I recommend password managers. I think for the vast majority of people they are a very good idea, and one of the best steps you can make as you try to live a more secure online life.
But things get a little tricky if you’re an established password manager vendor, and people can’t install your software.
That’s the challenge facing Dashlane right now.
You would expect the Dashlane folks to be riding on a high right now, with interest from lots of new potential customers, after they took out a full-page ad on the back page of the New York Times Business section to promote their new brand, and an ad for their password manager was broadcast during the Super Bowl.[embedded content]That must have cost them a pretty penny.
You can download Dashlane’s software from the official website, of course. But what you can’t do right now is find Dashlane’s browser extension in either the Chrome web store or Firefox add-ons library. And for the greatest ease-of-use, most people will probably appreciate having their password manager integrate with their web browser.
In short, there’s a problem.
And, unlike the recent incident with the LastPass browser extension, this isn’t a case of the password manager’s developers accidentally deleting their plugin from the Chrome web store.
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