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Re: Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

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Post by ndsipa_pomu » Fri, May 22, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

omnimus wrote: post #119

arikrahman wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get rid of the element of hope by using KeepassXC and syncthing. Bonus is you can use this FOSS stack completely offline.

And not be able to use it on your phone or share it with people you work with. Vaultwarden is the way. Easy to host docker. Solid. And if bitwarden blocks the clients there will be a fork. It's leading to it anyway.

I self-host Vaultwarden and it's great, but I'm not so sure that we can rely on trustworthy forks of the phone app and browser extensions.

Re: Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

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Post by KetoManx64 » Sat, May 23, 2026, 7:11 AM UTC

wat10000 wrote: post #126

craigmart wrote: post #48

This is an incredible overraction over a minor change that did not even happen. You can still find "Always free" in the pricing line of the very same page everyone keeps linking as proof https://bitwarden.com/products/personal/#whats-the-differenc... Edit: it actually disappeared for some time but they put it back on May 18 snapshot from May 15: https://web.archive.org/web/20260515190646/https://bitwarden... snapshot…

How is it an incredible overreaction? It's not like switching password managers is particularly arduous or expensive.

I need to: - Replace the extension and login on all of my browsers on all my devices - replace the desktop application/app on all my devices - go through and rework all the scripts that I use to automatically pull passaords from Bitwarden using the API and hope that the replacement has a good API

Nah, I think I'll stick with and keep paying/supporting Bitwarden.

Re: Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

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Post by arikrahman » Sat, May 23, 2026, 8:39 AM UTC

omnimus wrote: post #200

arikrahman wrote: post #186

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's what I'm saying, a lot of people are coping with a product they admit will need a fork. Not only is it incurring the cost of project fragmentation, but also incurring an always online cost with overly-complicated docker solutions, when a fully offline and airgapped solution already exists. Furthermore, staying with the same ecosystem invokes the sunken cost fallacy. But the migration from Bitwarden couldn't be…

I was on keepass before bitwarden. Bitwarden just solves more things for me. I am sure the keepass ecosystem improved a lot over the years but fundamentally i find vaultwarden docker to be far easier. Especially for my work and family members that i convinced to use bitwarden. If they were also in charge of the sync it wouldn't be possible. Afaik vaultwarden and bitwarden clients are as proven as keepass.

Proven to bait and switch as it turns out much unlike keepass.