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I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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A review of my experience with Bitwarden after several years of self-hosting it, and why I decided to move away from the password manager.

Note: this is not my article.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 25 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What's with the downvotes? The article makes good points, and brings them across politely:

  • it's a $100M for-profit company
  • it's heavy (compared to Vaultwarden, a Bitwarden compatible Rust rewrite)
  • its code base requires proprietary MS libraries and other esoteric (seen from the POV of a *nix user) stuff. I might have summarized this one badly, just read the chapter, it's not long.

My guess is people are salty because

  • they use Bitwarden and don't like to see it criticized
  • they got upset by the javascript overlay which is hilarious imo. I certainly got rick-rolled for a hot second.

FWIW, I don't serve my password database on the www at all. It sits on my own server and I can access it with all my devices, but the software to do that is local only.

[–] TerHu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

i really don’t get it either. i feel like op tends to write well researched and thought out blogs, which are nice to read too.

@op: you do good stuff!

[–] PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 week ago

I didn't downvote, but personally I'm upset that this article doesn't give you a good alternative, only a ridiculously complex new setup that is unrealistic and impractical for most users.

[–] femtek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

How does your phone and laptop outside of the network get to vault warden? Just using a VPN?

[–] robador51@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not OP, but I do that with wireguard.