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Dashlane
Company blog · blog.dashlane.comsecurityproductivity
Dashlane is the company blog at blog.dashlane.com, writing about security and productivity. Since 2016, 19 different Hacker News readers have linked it 26 times, most often “Dashlane's 2017 Password Power Rankings: comparison of 40 popular websites”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Dashlane's blog for password and login research, such as a Virginia Tech password study and an online account overload infographic, plus a piece on React Native on Windows.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- Dashlane's 2017 Password Power Rankings: comparison of 40 popular websites3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-08-09
- Online Overload – It’s Worse Than You Thought (2015)2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-02-15
- Exploring the Electron Framework for Our Windows App2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-10-21
- Show HN: Gitlab – Improving Code Review Workflow with a Browser Extension2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-04-16
- Rebranding Dashlane2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-01-27
What Hacker News says?
That's dangerous advice. Having access to some (or a combination of) "less-secure" accounts could allow an attacker to get enough personal information to escalate privileges through reset fields, social engineering in customer support, or just plain weird interactions between accounts. Besides, most people have enough "important" logins (social media, email, amazon, bank(s), computer, cloud accounts) and some have l…
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on “Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms”Submitted Show HN: Gitlab – Improving Code Review Workflow with a Browser Extension as a story · 9 points
HN discussionUsing the classical desktop version? > Microsoft Skype is one of the largest React Native applications in the world. https://blog.dashlane.com/exploring-react-native-on-windows/
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on “The Next Step for Generics”Submitted Dashlane's 2017 Password Power Rankings: comparison of 40 popular websites as a story · 5 points
HN discussionsorry, quick correction. It was dashlane. https://blog.dashlane.com/virginia-tech-passwords-study/
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on “1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults”Submitted Hiring Tips for First-Time Engineering Managers as a story · 4 points
HN discussionsorry, quick correction. It was dashlane. https://blog.dashlane.com/virginia-tech-passwords-study/
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on “1Password 8 will be subscription only and won’t support local vaults”Submitted How to Improve Security Awareness of Software Engineers as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis gets at a few issues: - Account-based authentication for numerous systems has reached a point of increasingly negative user returns. Experian (citing unspecified research, probably a 2015 Dashlane study) notes that the typical user had about 100 accounts -- 130 for the US, growing at 15% per year , or alternatively, doubling every 5 years . https://blog.dashlane.com/infographic-online-overload-its-wo... - Crud…
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on “They Might Never Tell You It’s Broken”Submitted Dashlane and Google Establish New API to Enable Simple App Logins for Android as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Improving Our Code Review Workflow with a Browser Extension as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Rebranding Dashlane as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Exploring the Electron Framework for Our Windows App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Evaluating Electron for our Windows App as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dashlane's Mobile Code Now Publicly Available as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Let’s Get Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography in Dashlane as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to create a good problem-solving interview as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Latest on Dashlane’s Web-First Experience as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dashlane Visual Redesign as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Online Overload – It’s Worse Than You Thought (2015) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted A Skeptic’s Guide to Password Managers and Security as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dashlane closes $110M Series D led by Sequoia Capital as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dashlane 6 Is Solving the Digital Identity Crisis for a Safer Digital Future as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Dashlane’s 2017 Password Power Rankings as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted How do your favorite Consumer and Enterprise websites/apps handle user security? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The 3 Simple Reasons Why Dashlane Uses React as a story · 1 points
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