I guess it's time to move on, I'll check PrivacyGuides for a better alternative while I compare by myself too.
I'm not gonna allow a quiet price hike, this is scummy and anti-consumer.
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Bit warden is undergoing enshittifcation in real time. It’s interesting to watch.
The price hike was announced months ago iirc and brings bitwarden in line (still cheaper) with all the other services after being the same price over years and years of inflation.
I got my eyes on em because of the vc money but the price hike isn’t out of line.
As a former subscriber since today, I didn't get an email about it so it's wasn't announced enough imo.
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Bitwarden was taken over by private equity just before these changes btw
price almost doubled; it's $19.80 a year now. Still cheaper than 1pass or lastpass, which are $3/month. I don't think they would increase to that much, because 1pass is objectively better.
Migrated to Keepass shortly before the price increase ( not because of it) just for the reason of wanting my vault fully offline. Seeing these changes at BW still makes me sad, was a long time paying user & truly enjoyed it
Keepass is fantastiic, my vault is pretty static so just manually copy to other device as needed. And of course, have your full backup plan in place as with all things
didn't KeepassXC go full into vibe coding?
https://lemmy.world/post/47036606/23815574
otherwise that would be the most appealing alternative to me too
Well that would make sense. I was actually going to switch to bitwarden back in May after keepassxc decided to corrupt my entire database along with the backup. I had to begin the lengthy process of resetting every single password I have, I was pretty furious and never wanted to touch keepassxc again. But when I went to bitwarden's website I noticed only paid options, so I decided to continue researching alternatives.
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In the same boat as you.
I don't like how it's changing, I also don't like how the UI is changing and, sadly, as a EU citizen I can't trust it any longer since it is made in the USA.
But I'm no hurry to switch. I mean, I won't rush or worry about paying one more year subscription if I have to. I'll try alternatives as long as I have too. So far, there is
- the Canadian 1Password and
- the non-synced/local but free to use KeepassXC that are standing out.
Both work with Linux.
non-synced/local but free to use KeepassXC
I sync it with Synching with no issues.
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The price is still reasonable for me. I don't want to switch services because they might enshitrify someday.
Disappointing, but I'm still going to be running the free tier of Bitwarden for the time being. Thanks for the heads up.
Out of a desire not to switch, I'm going to ask what I know to be a naive/dumb question: what's the worst that can happen? It's a mature gpl codebase
They become another LastPass.
Was LastPass open source to the same degree that Bitwarden is? It's super easy to run your own Vaultwarden server already, and it shouldn't be a problem for the community to fork and maintain unofficial clients either. Doesn't seem like there's much Bitwarden as a company could do about that, even if they wanted to.
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That's it. Thank you for your service until now.