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The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
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#42Thank you for pushing me to migrate away from Bitwarden. I've used them for years but I was moving away slowly; now I've moved.
Out of interest, where are you moving?
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not super big but it is there in the comparison list. Pricing: Always free Ctrl+f for "Always"
LOL.. you are correct. Funny thing though... the 'Always Free' text is linked to a "/start-free/" action\page. One could argue that they are hedging their bets.
Some other commenter says there are Archive.org cached versions with "Start free" instead of "Always free", so they must have backpedaled on this. Maybe they realized they turned the knob a bit too much towards "hot", increasing the temperature of the proverbial water too noticeably.
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#44After the LastPass fiasco I switched to selfhosting a password manager (bw). Rapidly starting to think even a vibecoded solution may be a better plan relying on commercial options. High risk of don’t roll your own crypto mistakes but realistically that’s not the threat model here anymore for the random individual. It’s online breaches or perhaps a wrench attack not highly skilled crypto adversary. Plus there are prob…
The LLMs also help a script kiddie become a highly skilled crypto adversary though. Especially if the concerns around Mythos are well founded.
True. No chance of me putting a DIY password manager on the open internet though. Would be behind WireGuard etc
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The "First time?" meme would be appropriate here. Companies change their policies all the time. Most recent example: https://cal.com/blog/cal-com-goes-closed-source-why
Re: The quiet renovation at Bitwarden
#46After the LastPass fiasco I switched to selfhosting a password manager (bw). Rapidly starting to think even a vibecoded solution may be a better plan relying on commercial options. High risk of don’t roll your own crypto mistakes but realistically that’s not the threat model here anymore for the random individual. It’s online breaches or perhaps a wrench attack not highly skilled crypto adversary. Plus there are prob…
The LLMs also help a script kiddie become a highly skilled crypto adversary though. Especially if the concerns around Mythos are well founded.
I wouldn't worry.
The mythical Mythos can't even find Claude code bugs before releases.
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#47Enshittification is properly viewed as a cybersecurity risk, a category of insider threat. You defend against it, when possible, by using open source software and open, documented file formats. That way, if open source enshittifies, the community can defend by forking. I’m so grateful for KeepassXC.
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#48Good post. I switched from Bitwarden to KeepassXC / KeepassDX / Syncthing across my Android phone, Linux PC, and Windows PC. This was the setup I had prior to using Bitwarden for the first time. The Keepass experience is significantly better these days! Importing from Bitwarden is trivial too. Recommended!
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#49I don't care about raising prices, I'm worried about the new CEO having a PE mindset. That means Bitwarden will now focus on extracting value while the product stagnates and degrades in quality. Time to jump ship before their security and quality goes down the drain.
PE? Private Equity is the slippery slope to Public Enshitification.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe they added it back after people noticed, archive.org has versions where its gone
Yeah, to me this isn't about whether or not it's "always free". It's about the rug pull. "They put some of the rug back!" isn't enough to restore goodwill in my case.
Yeah, I don’t trust their path anymore