
The first feature does not respect basic security by design principles, to which any application or organisation should automatically adhere when handling sensitive data. Specifically, I take serious issue with two of Dashlane’s features, both in the way they are designed and in the way they are presented. However, while doing my research, I stumbled upon some concerning design choices regarding Dashlane, which pushed me to write and publish this post first. Initially, this post should have been a comparative of password managers. Hereunder the original post, for archival purposes.

This post is therefore not relevant anymore, but I’d like to think it played a role in this change happening.


December 2021 update: three years (!) after this post was published, Dashlane finally updated their Password Changer to make it work locally.
