![]() I've used Roboform for many years, to manage passwords on my desktops and mobile devices. Of course, there is competition in the password manager arena. Another type of emergency might be, “I forgot my RoboForm master password.” Your emergency contact, hopefully, hasn’t forgotten theirs. ![]() This feature is a form of “Digital Estate Planning” that can spare your loved ones a lot of hassles when you are not around and they need to access online accounts you left behind. That takes a lot of the drudgery out of fixing all those weak passwords.Īnother new feature is the ability to designate an “emergency contact,” a trusted friend or family member who will be able to access all your RoboForm data stored on the company’s server in the event that you are incapacitated, incarcerated, dead, or otherwise unable to do it yourself. RoboForm 8 can now find duplicated passwords and help you change them to unique passwords. That’s a big security no-no you wouldn’t use one key to secure your house, car, office, gym locker, and safety deposit box. The audit also flags duplicates, sites on which you are using the same password. A new feature, dubbed Security Center/Password Audit, can then check your passwords for strength, flagging the ones that are weak or common and offering suggestions that will beef them up. It’s easy enough to import passwords stored by your browser into RoboForm 8. ![]() It not only stores your passwords, it helps you create strong ones and manage them so that you don’t fall into the traps I described in my article, Here’s Why Your Password Is Hackable. Roboform does that basic task, of course.īut RoboForm 8 goes beyond the basics. I did once but I no longer recommend RF to friends and family.First, here’s a quick answer to the question, “Why RoboForm?” Sure, modern browsers have rudimentary password managers that remember credentials for most sites you visit, making logins faster and easing the burden on your overloaded human memory. And it’s not going to bring new customers, at least the ones who read reviews and follow sound advice. This stealthy license update is not going to covert technically savvy users to the paid version. If that’s not a sure sign that they are struggling, both financially and in the terms of leadership, what is? Why did they further limit the free version? No other competitor is doing this (to my knowledge). (How active is this subreddit? That tells you something, doesn’t it?) RF is going extinct because they have been losing relevance and market share for years. There are a dozen of other popular password managers, and most of them innovate faster. RF is no longer the market leader, either in the free or paid categories. which turned out to be a marketing lie.but that’s another topic. Back then the paid version promised perpetual forever updates…. I bought Roboform at the dawn of time (circa 2000 ) because then it was the best (and only) form filler. Sooner or later, the user base of the paid version will also dwindle and the company will fold. ![]() The bottom line is this: Free Robofrom is going extinct. Instead of innovations and better features they give us update nags and stealth backdoor restrictions. Like me, if you sync/backup pwd data yourself and use more than one device, don't update to 9.4.1.Īs someone who has been an early adopter and has used both paid and free versions, I've lost trust in the company and in the product. If you copy the file to another device, it will work in "Read Only" mode, which means you have to manually copy/paste passwords to your browser. If I read this correctly, RF data file is now tied to a particular device. Copying your user data file to other devices manually will not allow to access it from the installed RoboForm applications." So now your options are either buy a subscription to continue using RoboForm across multiple devices, or select only one device to continue using RoboForm for free. ![]() "We have updated our license enforcement to ensure that the free RoboForm version only is used on a single device. There is no online info explaining what this marketing jargon actually means.
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