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)

  • Leraje@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    13 days ago

    I switched to Keepass flavours for desktop and Android and use syncthing (desktop) and syncthing-fork (android) to keep the db synced - works perfectly so far.

    As for the reason - same as you OP.

    • Lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      13 days ago

      Check the OP again. They’re a serial poster in many, many subs.

      Related to the article though: I also use KeePass in many flavors. Recently got my wife on it as she jumped ship from Apple straight to a used Pixel with Graphene OS (her request). Solid password manager.