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"We won’t be collecting your saved passwords, passkeys, usernames, and any URLs associated with your items. Your private information is just that – private.

All event data will be de-identified and processed in aggregate before it’s used for analysis. "

It sounds like they plan on releasing the technical details in the coming days/weeks. I'm curious how its de-identified and processed.

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[–] g0nz0li0@beehaw.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tough place for 1Password, who clearly want to be able to collect data to maintain a competitive edge, but have an audience of security conscious users who may not be comfortable with this. But as always transparency is appreciated.

[–] wet_lettuce@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's also incredibly important to note that they are making this explicitly opt-in. So none of that 'dark pattern' mumbo jumbo with the tyranny of the default--where companies opt you in and most users dont realize they have to opt-out.

All in all they are going about this the right way it seems. The devil will be in the de-identifying technical details imo.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn't join-lemmy.org do the same thing with telemetry? As long as this is GDPR compliant, then there's no personal data to track.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Almost every product tracks user behaviour. It’s how they utilise that data that should concern us. In this case, this doesn’t concern me at all. I’ve already decided to trust them with my passwords.

[–] Sleepkever@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Exactly. They are being transparant, it looks like it will be an opt-in when the time comes and are already telling you why they are collecting data. Now if they will tell you exactly what data they will be collecting in a short way before asking approval this is a textbook example of how analytics data collection should be done.

[–] Screak42@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Isn’t 1passwoed subscription only? If I remember correctly that’s what drove me away from a once great application.

and now they want to collect data from paying customers?? excuse me? are you insane?

crash and burn.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Huh? They are interested in improving their app - to do that, understanding what choices people make (which buttons do they press, which so they miss etc) is helpful. They’re not trying to monetise your behaviour for goodness sake, but give you a better experience.

[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago

I used a legacy version until recently. Could still sync with Dropbox, but Chrome integration eventually broke completely, and that was the last straw. Now on BitWarden, and while not perfect, it's free and does what I need it to do.

[–] Jeze3D@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I recently switched from Bitwarden to 1Password and don't regret it one bit. Their app is substantially improved over Bitwarden. Layout is significantly more intuitive and autofill works better than Bitwarden on iOS/macOS.

[–] lilweeb@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Sigh. What’s a good alternative for iOS?

[–] chaotic_goody@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're not willing to trust what they say about the anonymity of the telemetry system, or to opt out, then I think you wouldn't be happy trusting them with all your passwords in the first place!

If you're willing to stick to Safari, then I think using Apple Keychain is best, especially since they'll be adding sharing this year.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah this is what I don’t get. They already hold your most precious secrets and now you don’t trust them with a telemetry system?! Seems an odd order of concerns to me.

[–] ZickZack@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

You can use keepassXC and "self-host" your passwords on any cloud-storage you want (it's just a file after all), but if you are using 1Pass at the moment, I don't see an opt-in anonymized telemetry system as a reason to switch.

[–] Tywele@dataterm.digital 1 points 1 year ago

BitWarden is excellent

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Telemetry is one more attack vector, and it's not a small one at that.

Product owners need to be laid off to stop the enshittification of these apps. Extremely disappointed in this move.