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Is it that time when I say "oh shit!" and starts to look at alternatives? I've seen this scenario a hundred times already and I'm tired.
I don't have the patience to switch to alternatives until they make a change that actually affects the usability of the tool.
This is absolutely a red flag though.
Just FYI, you can export your Bitwarden database to plain text and import that with KeePassXC
All the attachments, though... man this is going to be such a pain :/
Same question here. What are the best alternatives?
KeePassXC is the best FOSS option, but you'll need to figure out self hosting if you want to sync the database between devices.
As the database is encrypted in your device, you dont really need to self host. A keepass database in the Google cloud is not really problematic, although you should still choose a more private cloud provider.
Syncthing is probably a simple fix.
Assuming you have a degoogle'd phone. The syncthing-fork devs announced that they aren't going to certify for Google Play when that's made a requirement in a few months
I use Vaultwarden
But you still use the official BW client apps, correct?
Unless you forego usage of the clients and access Vaultwarden through the browser (removing accessibility and convenience especially on mobile), it is not an e2e replacement solution.
Are there any alternative FOSS clients/apps that work with Vaultwarden?
Edit: I see further down that the official client is open source, and would get forked in the event of any fuckery. So I'm sticking with Vaultwarden + Official client app approach for now.
Coincidentally, I moved to self-hosting Vaultwarden last night, which is open source but compatible with Bitwarden. If you want a simple transition and are capable of hosting it yourself, that would be my recommendation.
Why the fuck does everything that's good turn to shit? This world sucks. This timeline sucks.
It's not a timeline. It's just the world we keep making. The only one.
VC ruins everything
This is literally a product where a hobbyist tried to fix a niche, and now the VCs arrive.
reading this as someone who migrated the rest of the household to Bitwarden literally yesterday: 😒
It took me years after the lastpass breach to get my wife and 1/3 of my kids to switch to Bitwarden. I am not looking to having to migrate again.
Luckily BW is open source, and VaultWarden exists. If they enshitify, all it takes is a fork of the browser extensions and apps with a rebrand.
This right here is the only answer
Companies can try to steal the app but they can only steal the name
1Password took investor funding, moved to subscription and focusing on corporate.
Bitwarden heading the same way. Great…
This is troubling and I am going to accelerate my migration to Vaultwarden. I'm not going to leave Bitwarden yet but I saw how this played out with LastPass, and I was a happy LastPass customer until I wasn't.
The company has long defined its values with the acronym “GRIT,” which used to stand for “Gratitude, Responsibility, Inclusion, and Transparency.” After May 4, it changed the acronym to stand for “Gratitude, Responsibility, Innovation, and Trust.”
It's not as bad as the headline seems. Transparency is still in the motto. The actual change is:
But still. Why change it at all? Why replace "inclusion" with "innovation"?
It smells like Tech Bro.
There's just no way to spin that positively, even giving them the benefit of the doubt, especially since they aren't rolling it back. Someone spent effort to make that values change, so its not an accident nor a "nothingburger".
Well, trust is literally the oposite of transparency. So i would call it quite bad, especially if you consider that right now i trust these guys with my credit card details, my taxID, all my passwords.
Exactly. In cybersec, trust is someting you try to avoid or at least minimize. Trying to use it as a selling point is ridiculous.
“You either die the hero, or you live long enough to become the villain”
Ah shit, here we go again…
If you're looking for alternatives and you don't care about automatic device syncing, I have been enjoying using keepassxc
Run.
ProtonPass is run by a non-profit if you have to move to another hosted solution.
Otherwise there's multiple self-hostable options, including plain file sync options.
Use this example as learning experience that the type of the firm you're buying a service from is very important as it changes whose interests it puts first, second and last.
Update: After publication, an employee on the Bitwarden subreddit said that “Always free” had been restored on its pricing page, calling it an “oversight” by the marketing team. The product page for Bitwarden’s personal password manager remains unchanged.
Oversight
They got community checked and backtracked hard... I have always endorsed bitwarden but that is becoming worrisome. :(
Enshitification marches on.
I wonder how much the new choice of CEO was up to the founder versus the venture capital investors. I’m assuming the investors had the main input.
And this is why every time a tech company raises venture capitalist funding, it's almost inevitably on the road to enshittification, as the ones holding the pursestrings only care about what profit they can extract from the company over the next few years.
It needs a conscious effort from companies that are small but successful to stay that way, to keep their size and business model sustainable, and their mission connected to the interests of their users. From the top of my head I know Obsidian does it this way (fully user-funded), but there are probably others too.
I feel like switching to self hosted vaultwarden was one of my best moves of the year
Ah for fuck's sake. Seems like every month I have to change something because some fucking company starts getting a taste for greed via data sucking. I'm goddamn sick of it.
Was good while it lasted. Thanks for getting me off LastPass. See ya
ugh... This is worrying.
All good things come to an end at some point I guess.
I guess it's time to move to vaultwarden sooner rather than later.... This wasn't supposed to be the weekend project, but fuck it; let's roll with it!
