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Speaker 1: Dash Lane password manager gets new features and a hefty

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Speaker 1: new price tag. What's going on. I'm Rich Demiro. This

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Speaker 1: is Rich on Tech. Dash Lane is one of my

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Speaker 1: top recommendations when it comes to a password manager, and

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Speaker 1: now it's getting a big upgrade along with a big

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Speaker 1: price increase. More on that in a bit, but first

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Speaker 1: let me explain what dash Lane is all about and

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Speaker 1: what's new in dash Lane six. Dashlane is a password manager,

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Speaker 1: an app that both creates complex and secure passwords, plus

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Speaker 1: it stores them for you, so you really don't have

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Speaker 1: to worry about remembering your password for various sites. When

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Speaker 1: you need to log into an account, you can either

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Speaker 1: copy and paste the password from the Dashlane app, or

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Speaker 1: Dashlane will even log in for you, depending on the

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Speaker 1: platform you're using. So if you're on your phone on Android,

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Speaker 1: it can log right in for you, or if you're

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Speaker 1: on your web browser using something like Chrome, it will

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Speaker 1: literally just log into the website. It's pretty easy. That's

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Speaker 1: the basic functionality, and the benefit here is that you're

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Speaker 1: not reusing the same password over and over for various websites,

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Speaker 1: so if a website is hacked, they don't get your

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Speaker 1: password for other sites. The damage is basically limited. Also,

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Speaker 1: you're using passwords that hopefully people can't figure out. Dashlane

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Speaker 1: six has a new feature which they call password Health.

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Speaker 1: This is a quick view of how healthy your password

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Speaker 1: life is, including any passwords that should be changed immediately

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Speaker 1: due to a recent hack or compromise. They also have

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Speaker 1: a dashboard that tells you how many of your passwords

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Speaker 1: are weak or those that are reused, which are red

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Speaker 1: flags and you probably want to change. They also have

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Speaker 1: a feature that lets you change your passwords at one

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Speaker 1: site or a bunch of sites in just one click.

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Speaker 1: Dashlane says that's supported on five hundred websites or more.

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Speaker 1: I find that it only works on a handful of

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Speaker 1: my websites, maybe twenty or thirty, but it's still a

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Speaker 1: nice feature to have. Dashlane also includes one gigabyte of

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Speaker 1: secure storage, so you can save sensitive encrypted files here.

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Speaker 1: And there's also a feature that lets you share passwords

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Speaker 1: with friends or family members who also have Dashlane. This

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Speaker 1: is actually quite useful because let's say you and your

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Speaker 1: wife share the same password for Amazon to order stuff.

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Speaker 1: You can literally share your password with her inside the

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Speaker 1: Dashlane app, so it's not pasted in an email or

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Speaker 1: a text message much more secure this way. One of

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Speaker 1: the new features is VPN. I think a lot of

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Speaker 1: people will welcome this one. Dash Lane Premium and Premium

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Speaker 1: Plus customers can now secure their connections to the Internet

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Speaker 1: with a VPN, which is really great if you're traveling

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Speaker 1: or connecting to a random Wi Fi network. Dash Lane's

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Speaker 1: VPN will encrypt your traffic and make it more secure,

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Speaker 1: and it's unlimited, which is actually a pretty valuable perk. Then,

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Speaker 1: when it comes to monitoring your online identity, dash Lane

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Speaker 1: is also adding a bunch of new features here, sort

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Speaker 1: of competing with the likes of LifeLock. For starters, you

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Speaker 1: can pop in up to five email addresses to monitor

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Speaker 1: to see if they show up anywhere on the internet.

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Speaker 1: Dashlane says it can scan up to thirty two billion

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Speaker 1: records related to hacks and breaches, and these next features

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Speaker 1: are reserved for the top tier, the Premium Plus users,

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Speaker 1: which is dash Lane's newest and most expensive tier at

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Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty dollars a year. You get credit

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Speaker 1: monitoring and Alert's powered by TransUnion. You can also see

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Speaker 1: your credit score. Then there's ID restoration support for help

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Speaker 1: if your identity is stolen an ID theft insurance of

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Speaker 1: up to one million dollars. Clearly, Dashlane is going above

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Speaker 1: and beyond just storing your passwords for a full suite

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Speaker 1: of digital privacy. But now let's break down the cost

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Speaker 1: and whether it's worth it. Dashlane at its core is

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Speaker 1: free that lets you create and store your passwords, but

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Speaker 1: they don't sink across devices. So if you just want

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Speaker 1: to start somewhere, you can install the app on your

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Speaker 1: phone and whenever you need to log into a website,

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Speaker 1: you can copy and paste the password from Dashlane, or

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Speaker 1: you can just look at the password on dash Lane

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Speaker 1: and type it in on your desktop. But my feeling

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Speaker 1: is that you're probably gonna grow frustrated with this process

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Speaker 1: pretty quickly and want to upgrade. So the next step

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Speaker 1: up is a subscription, which now runs sixty dollars a year.

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Speaker 1: This is a twenty dollars price increase as of today,

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Speaker 1: it used to cost forty dollars, and a year ago

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Speaker 1: it used to cost thirty dollars, so Dashlane has raised

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Speaker 1: their prices a lot in the past couple of years.

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Speaker 1: After that, if you want a Premium plus membership that

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Speaker 1: will run you one hundred and twenty dollars a year

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Speaker 1: that includes the credit monitoring and the ID theft insurre

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Speaker 1: curren And keep in mind all these prices are just

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Speaker 1: for one person. Dashlane does not have any family plans

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Speaker 1: the line plan. Now. When I tweeted about the price increase,

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Speaker 1: dash Lane tweeted this back, Hi, Rich Dashlane six is

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Speaker 1: a major evolution towards putting our customers in full control

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Speaker 1: of their digital identity. As a matter of fact, we

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Speaker 1: worked with over five thousand customers on our new feature

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Speaker 1: set and pricing. Will continue to lead the industry in

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Speaker 1: security and ease of use, and expect our customers will

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Speaker 1: love our expanded capabilities. Thanks for the feedback on the

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Speaker 1: family plan. It's definitely on our roadmap for a subsequent release.

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Speaker 1: So what's the alternative here? Last Pass is a good

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Speaker 1: free solution and their free service lets you sink your

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Speaker 1: password across all of your devices. But if you want

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Speaker 1: premium features including no ADS, it is twenty four dollars

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Speaker 1: a year or forty eight dollars a year for families.

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Speaker 1: One password is a fan favorite. It started out primarily

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Speaker 1: for Apple users, but now they have support for Windows

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Speaker 1: and Android. One password is thirty six dollars a year

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Speaker 1: or sixty dollars a year for families. I think you

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Speaker 1: can see where all of this is going. If you

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Speaker 1: want good, secure password protection, you need to pay something. Overall,

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Speaker 1: I think that dash Lane now offers the most complete solution,

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Speaker 1: especially with the VPN included and that built in wallet

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Speaker 1: to store your payment and ID information. But you kind

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Speaker 1: of have to decide if the price is worth it

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Speaker 1: for you. Once you start using one of these managers.

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Speaker 1: It's not impossible to export your passwords and switch to

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Speaker 1: a new service, but it certainly isn't something you want

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Speaker 1: to do very often. As for the credit score monitoring

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Speaker 1: and ID theft protection, you can check out wallet hub.

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Speaker 1: They give you a lot of these features for free,

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Speaker 1: and I really like their service, although you're probably gonna

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Speaker 1: have to pay anywhere to get really premium ID protection.

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Speaker 1: There you have it. If you want to try out

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Speaker 1: dash Lane, you can do it for thirty days free,

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Speaker 1: or you can use my referral code for twenty dollars

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Speaker 1: off your first year subscription. You can find a link

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Speaker 1: to that in the show notes. Thanks so much for listening.

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Speaker 1: You can find links to everything I talk about here

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Speaker 1: at richontech dot tv. I'm Rich Daemiro. I'll talk to

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Speaker 1: you real soon