Quiet Changes in Bitwarden
I have been using Bitwarden for around 7~ years. Subscription for this long too, at 10USD p/year. I will be switching due to lack of transparency, and would love to hear others thoughts on this.The linked article goes into further detail, but here is a small summary that very much concern me / are sus:
- that 10USD per year has gone up quietly . I just checked and I have no email telling me it's increased. It renews in like 2 months, so this is good timing for me
- Originally Bitwarden had values as apart of the acronym "GRIT". Gratitude, Responsibility, Inclusion, and Transparency. They have changed the last two words to "Innovation, Trust"
- There is now a new CEO, this was not announced and the only reason people outside of Bitwarden know is that someone saw this change on LinkedIn
- The free tier momentarily disappeared from their product page for about a month (april14-may14). People were likely still able to make free accounts during this period. Bitwarden says it was a marketing mistakeThe price hike is one thing, but for me the acronym change is most concerning, which is why I will be looking at another password manger (probably keepassxc)
Things Are Quietly Changing at Bitwarden, and People Are Worried
The password manager swapped its CEO, rewrote its core values, and briefly pulled "Always Free" from its pricing page.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
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in reply to Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State" • • •0x0
in reply to cm0002 • • •Silently replacing the ceo is a big red flag for me considering the rest.
Glad i never started with bitwarden
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in reply to cm0002 • • •Apologies... to clarify, you've been using Bitwarden for a local password manager as the awesome KeePassXC?
Yes, you may sync the KeePass databases manually, but... considering your investment to the vendor mentioned, I am sorry, it feels like you may not find it an alternative you expect to replace the service with.
If you are capable to set a custom synchronization for the KeePass databases across your environments and devices, then you should find KeePassXC or similar clients a marvel.
Yet, just in case, you may want to check out the following project:
- github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
GitHub - dani-garcia/vaultwarden: Unofficial Bitwarden compatible server written in Rust, formerly known as bitwarden_rs
GitHubLeraje
in reply to cm0002 • • •I switched to Keepass flavours for desktop and Android and use syncthing (desktop) and syncthing-fork (android) to keep the db synced - works perfectly so far.
As for the reason - same as you OP.
Lka1988
in reply to Leraje • • •Check the OP again. They're a serial poster in many, many subs.
Related to the article though: I also use KeePass in many flavors. Recently got my wife on it as she jumped ship from Apple straight to a used Pixel with Graphene OS (her request). Solid password manager.
yestalgia
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in reply to cm0002 • • •Same. I've finally migrated to vaultwarden because of that.
southsamurai
in reply to cm0002 • • •Problem is that I prefer having some things external. Self hosting means maintaining all the hardware, and that can be an issue when shit goes major wrong. So some vital stuff like a password database, it's just not something I'm going to dick around with the usual sync back and forth on my own stuff.
And bitwarden fills that need best so far. I haven't found anything else anyway