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- Thankful for people like the author who surveil tech companies that take this well-worn path toward greater monetizationby Centigonal
- It still says "Always free" on the website for me. It's both on the billing page on the page linked in the article.
I do share the concerns though. The change in leadership, the poor transparency, 100% price increase and the quiet change in core values.
I was happy paying $10 yearly for Bitwarden. I'm still okay with $20 but there's a seed of doubt.
by waysa - Wild to me that Bitwarden raised > $100m from VC. Seems like the kind of thing that would make a nice lifestyle business.
The enterprise version never went beyond password management so I'm not sure how this could have generated a viable ROI.
by cheriot - Lately I've been scrutinizing Bitwarden after discovering a long history of memory leak problems in the GitHub issue tracker. It's an extention I use with all of my browsers. It seems to use an unusually high amount of RAM on Safari and I suspect it's why RAM just never stops growing in MS Edge.
Overall it's not a problem for me if Bitwarden wants more money, but I have to draw the line at replacing top leadership with randoms from private equity and secret price hikes. I'm glad this is being highlighted and it's motivating me even more to find suitable FOSS-friendly alternative.
by evanjrowley - At this point it is too high of a risk to store my password elsewhere. I've been screwed over by dashlane, lastpass, potentially bitwarden now, I am with 1password now, but I've had my passwords in all these places, and I've had to change them each time, probably missing a few.
I like 1password, it is by far the highest quality product I've used in this category. I moved from BitWarden back then because their browser integration was quite poor.
I think I'll move to something custom, or a selfhosted keepass server, with the rugpulls, incidents, and whatnot, it is becoming too high of a risk.
by kjuulh - I have moved to KeepassXC[1] on my desktop from Bitwarden. On phone, I use KeepassDX[2] which is Android client compatible with KeepassXC. On browser, I use KeepassXC Browser extension which connects with the desktop client. Since KeepassXC operates on a single file, you can use any Filesystem syncing tool to sync that file between devices or to store it in the cloud. I am really happy with the move.by varbhat
- Thank you for this post/link. I have been side eyeing Bitwarden since they started ensh*ttifying the desktop UX last year to make it more like everything else and take up too much space. It had been working perfectly well for browser autofill - super fast and staying out of the way. Now it is bloated white space, slow, standardized UX elements like any SaaS built by AI. Will check out Vaultwarden, Proton Pass, Keepass, I guess. But sadly - yet another tool that worked perfectly well that was ruined in contempt of its own users (LastPass, Authy, Google Reader, etc - the list goes on)by xweb
- When I first learnt about Bitwarden about 3 years ago, I started hosting Vaultwarden right away. Right now I have one instance for myself and another for my friend's company. Everything runs as smooth as butter. If you can self-host something, do self-host a Vaultwarden instance. If you are (like me) somewhat paranoid about the fact that Vaultwarden hasn't got a proper security audit on its codebase, just run it behind a VPN, it will probably be fine.
I'm not particularly worried about Bitwarden going belly up because it has already have such a well-established open-source replacement. The worst-case scenario is that Bitwarden make the clients incompatible with Vaultwarden, and like how OP already mentioned in the post, somebody in the community will fork them as soon as this happen.
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