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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)

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[–] liverstealer@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

I am looking at aliasvault.net or keepassxc. Vaultwarden I'm not super interested in either as one of its big developers works at Bitwarden, they could be pressured to stop working on it etc. Potential conflict of interest

[–] SW42@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That’s true, but as long as I have it hosted locally and it keeps working I’m fine with it. I have really gotten used to the bitwarden client simply working on all the devices/browsers.

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[–] Tundra@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

https://psono.com/

although its advertised as self hosted & for companies, you can create a personal account on their server.

[–] liverstealer@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

That's cool I haven't heard of that one. I personally will be avoiding Enterprise products from now on since Bitwarden

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[–] makeitwonderful@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I've already decided to move away from Bitwarden for these reasons but I'm still looking for what comes next.

Curious what did you move to?

[–] _tasten_tiger@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago

Oh that really sucks. Does anybody know any alternatives that support Addy.io integration and shared vaults? I use those heavily

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