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Show them. Since you’ve got them set up, if you are called on for tech support (especially around a password), remind them that you can’t help them if they don’t have the password in 1Password, because you can’t debug those things.

It took 4–5 years, but my wife is now a 1Password advocate and tells people that it’s the best way to protect themselves. Sort of like a feature of our banking apps‡, she has been convinced by the fact that the 1Password URL matching provides strong anti-phishing protection.

For the most part, my family has found it easier to remember that they only have to know one password than to put up with my complaining that they’re not using 1Password and I can’t help them because they’re not…

‡ The feature for the bank was the "spending notifications". Almost ten years ago I installed the "spending tracker" app from the bank, and about a month or two after, I got a notification of a 0.01 charge from a company we have no business with. After I tapped through, I noticed that it was on my wife’s credit card, so I notified her that her card had been skimmed and she needed to contact the company. We knew before the bank knew because of their feature. She installed the app the next day.



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