Upon purchasing my Yubikey, the first thing I wanted to do was to find an online site to store all my URLs/usernames/passwords. I did some research (apparently not enough) and came upon Mashedlife as what I THOUGHT was a good place to store my info. Aside from the fact that they sell cheap Yubikey knockoffs, their site still seemed to be secure, and allowed me to store my information on line, so that I could quickly share it between machines without having to worry about plugging a real USB into an unsecure machine (say, if I went to the library and utilized one of their machines for my email). My goal was to have a place to store my URLs/usernames/passwords on line.
After about 6 months of using MashedLife, and being honestly pretty satisfied with their site, and even recommending them to a few friends, I was surprised when I logged in not to see all my accounts, but to see a banner stating that "Your usage exceeded the free quota of 50 login accounts "!!! And it showed NONE of my accounts!!! I realized that if I hit the refresh screen multiple times, I can get back to my accounts, but it appears that they have an annoyance campaign targeted to make me now purchase their VIP service for $1/month.
It would have been fine if I had known up front that they were going to restrict me to 50 accounts and anything after that is a pay service, but they posted NO information whatsoever saying that I would be restricted to 50 sites (or else I wouldn't have used them in the first place). Now I'm the poor state that I've spent the time uploading over a hundred accounts to their site, and have to find another site to transfer them to (and then go through all that work again to establish accounts there, then delete them from Mashedlife).
Bottom Line: Stay away from MashedLife. Their business practices of copying other peoples technology, and annoying users into paying for what was originally a free service are indicative that they can't be trusted.
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