Reporting That Finds Everything Just Dandy Has Trouble Passing The Sniff Test

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• Maybe reporters shouldn’t be so enthusiastic.

“How is this not an ad?”

“A few rivals provide the same service—Keeper from Chicago-based Keeper Security Inc. and LastPass—” Hendershot allowed, “but none does the job so attractively and intuitively as Dashlane.” He added, “Thanks to browser extensions, Dashlane can work its auto-filling magic almost anywhere on the Web.”

I did. Arndt’s story ran in mid-December under the headline “Introducing the Crainiac Awards: 2013’s four weirdest iOS apps.”