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How to Save Money on Your Cell Phone Bill. How to Free Up Space on Your iPhone or iPad. How to Block Robotexts and Spam Messages. Even paywalled though, this feature is super important and the fact that it's not already in place is kinda shameful. edit-: Looks like Bitwarden's U2F functionality is paywalled too, so maybe I'm wrong about the PR thing. I was holding out for them to get a security audit, but that's long since been completed and the project has reached a decent maturity. Maybe my coworkers are right and I need to look into jumping ship to Bitwarden after all. They'd either have to paywall U2F as well (and suffer the PR nightmare that would be) or.do nothing. Getting U2F in place would benefit both of those verticals, except for the fact that they paywall YubiKey's original OTP functionality. Personal opinions and observations incoming:īased on what I'm seeing online, LogMeIn/LastPass has majorly dropped focus for end-users in favor of working to improve the enterprise side of things. I've shot out a Tweet to LastPass, but who knows if they'll reply or even see it.