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by sprayk 3516 days ago
Can anyone shed some light onto how they are going to be making money now? I know there is some kind of useful info they can derive from letting users voluntarily have their password db's scanned for strength/pw duplication/etc, is there some money to be made selling something derived from that to third parties?
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I'm assuming they are going to make their money selling password access to companies.
Ads, since premium is noted to be ad-free.
LastPass free only shows ads FOR LastPass. They are served first party.
I admit I haven't tried it yet, I've only posted the above speculation based on the features list. So how are ads being displayed in the desktop/mobile apps ?
It's just an image for whatever lastpass product the RNG rolls, with a link that says "Tired of these ads? Upgrade now"
Just registered to try it out a bit, the auto-fill is quite nice. Saw the ad you've described and it's not intrusive in any way.

I've been using Keepass+Dropbox for couple years now, will give LP a go.