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 mistake
The 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)
Silently replacing the ceo is a big red flag for me considering the rest.
Glad i never started with bitwarden
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
Same. I’ve finally migrated to vaultwarden because of that.
I’m personally self-hosting Vaultwarden precisely to skirt around this issue, but who knows how long will it take for Bitwarden to take the ball home and block Vaultwarden from using the mobile client and the browser add-on.
I’m pretty sure that’s not going to happen. if I remember correctly, vaultwarden is helping bitwarden optimize their server since theirs is so much heavier than vaultwarden to run.
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.
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.
Wow that’s amazing your wife requested a Pixel for GOS? Is she single?
Apologies… to clarify, you’ve been using Bitwarden for a local password manager as the awesome KeePassXC you mentioned?
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, have you checked out the following project?:
- https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
