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Why the fuck does everything that's good turn to shit? This world sucks. This timeline sucks.
It's not a timeline. It's just the world we keep making. The only one.
VC ruins everything
This is literally a product where a hobbyist tried to fix a niche, and now the VCs arrive.
Is it that time when I say "oh shit!" and starts to look at alternatives? I've seen this scenario a hundred times already and I'm tired.
I don't have the patience to switch to alternatives until they make a change that actually affects the usability of the tool.
This is absolutely a red flag though.
Just FYI, you can export your Bitwarden database to plain text and import that with KeePassXC
All the attachments, though... man this is going to be such a pain :/
Same question here. What are the best alternatives?
KeePassXC is the best FOSS option, but you'll need to figure out self hosting if you want to sync the database between devices.
As the database is encrypted in your device, you dont really need to self host. A keepass database in the Google cloud is not really problematic, although you should still choose a more private cloud provider.
Syncthing is probably a simple fix.
Assuming you have a degoogle'd phone. The syncthing-fork devs announced that they aren't going to certify for Google Play when that's made a requirement in a few months
reading this as someone who migrated the rest of the household to Bitwarden literally yesterday: 😒
It took me years after the lastpass breach to get my wife and 1/3 of my kids to switch to Bitwarden. I am not looking to having to migrate again.
Luckily BW is open source, and VaultWarden exists. If they enshitify, all it takes is a fork of the browser extensions and apps with a rebrand.
This right here is the only answer
Companies can try to steal the app but they can only steal the name
This is troubling and I am going to accelerate my migration to Vaultwarden. I'm not going to leave Bitwarden yet but I saw how this played out with LastPass, and I was a happy LastPass customer until I wasn't.
The company has long defined its values with the acronym “GRIT,” which used to stand for “Gratitude, Responsibility, Inclusion, and Transparency.” After May 4, it changed the acronym to stand for “Gratitude, Responsibility, Innovation, and Trust.”
It's not as bad as the headline seems. Transparency is still in the motto. The actual change is:
But still. Why change it at all? Why replace "inclusion" with "innovation"?
It smells like Tech Bro.
There's just no way to spin that positively, even giving them the benefit of the doubt, especially since they aren't rolling it back. Someone spent effort to make that values change, so its not an accident nor a "nothingburger".
Well, trust is literally the oposite of transparency. So i would call it quite bad, especially if you consider that right now i trust these guys with my credit card details, my taxID, all my passwords.
Exactly. In cybersec, trust is someting you try to avoid or at least minimize. Trying to use it as a selling point is ridiculous.
Removing 'inclusion' smells like a pivot to the right, same way DEI is a target for maga
Nothing good ever lasts. Guess that's entropy for you.
From the article
Update: After publication, an employee on the Bitwarden subreddit said that “Always free” had been restored on its pricing page, calling it an “oversight” by the marketing team. The product page for Bitwarden’s personal password manager remains unchanged.
Don't care. Being owned by a private equity bro is enough for me ✌️
1Password took investor funding, moved to subscription and focusing on corporate.
Bitwarden heading the same way. Great…
Update: After publication, an employee on the Bitwarden subreddit said that “Always free” had been restored on its pricing page, calling it an “oversight” by the marketing team. The product page for Bitwarden’s personal password manager remains unchanged.
Oversight
They got community checked and backtracked hard... I have always endorsed bitwarden but that is becoming worrisome. :(
Yeah, you know those marketing team people. They totally went out of their way to make more work for themselves to change it with I'm sure zero instructions from higher up to do so.
We're sorry we got caught
“You either die the hero, or you live long enough to become the villain”
I feel like switching to self hosted vaultwarden was one of my best moves of the year
I guess it's time to move to vaultwarden sooner rather than later.... This wasn't supposed to be the weekend project, but fuck it; let's roll with it!
Ah for fuck's sake. Seems like every month I have to change something because some fucking company starts getting a taste for greed via data sucking. I'm goddamn sick of it.
Was good while it lasted. Thanks for getting me off LastPass. See ya
I knew trouble was brewing when they started adding the little corporate cute waving graphics and stuff to the UI. Glad I already migrated away
Self hosting is the new battefront for the individual's right to sovereign data
Ah shit, here we go again…
Enshitification marches on.
Proton pass has been fine for me. I don’t care that the one Proton guy said the one thing that time, I’m out of energy and it’s good enough.
I wonder how much the new choice of CEO was up to the founder versus the venture capital investors. I’m assuming the investors had the main input.
And this is why every time a tech company raises venture capitalist funding, it's almost inevitably on the road to enshittification, as the ones holding the pursestrings only care about what profit they can extract from the company over the next few years.
It needs a conscious effort from companies that are small but successful to stay that way, to keep their size and business model sustainable, and their mission connected to the interests of their users. From the top of my head I know Obsidian does it this way (fully user-funded), but there are probably others too.
Run.
ProtonPass is run by a non-profit if you have to move to another hosted solution.
Otherwise there's multiple self-hostable options, including plain file sync options.
Use this example as learning experience that the type of the firm you're buying a service from is very important as it changes whose interests it puts first, second and last.
Non-profits do not always remain non-profits, and can become for-profit entities. Being a non-profit is not a reason to move to proton IMO, but Proton should be a decent temporary option if Bitwarden becomes aggressive to the open-source ecosystem.
