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It's a cool concept that quickly falls apart in my opinion:
I could probably list a lot of other reasons why it's not a good idea to use it. There are probably some edge cases where it's good, for demonstration purposes or training sessions where the participants all need unique (temporary) logins for several services.
You also cannot use it to store secret information like bank account/credit card details, API keys, etc.
Thanks, I'll keep this in mind.
In my view, both a password file (vault/database) and LessPass are potentially attackable via brute force. I don't see that one is safer than the other.
Point being that an attacker also needs access to said vault.
#3 isn't true. There's a username field, so you just put in the username of the alt accounts.
Your point about the master password and two factor is a good one though.
In practice password restrictions are rare (like 1% of sites), but they are problematic when they happen because there's so many different ways to restrict passwords and trying all combinations is impractical. Needing the counter is exceedingly rare. Remembering the username isn't a problem, but if you don't have a consistent policy of always-using-a-username or always-using-the-email (as the lesspass username) it can be difficult to remember that. Similar situation with the URL, if it's not abbreviated consistently, then it's a problem.
That said, I still use LessPass for everything and just deal with the edgecase problems.