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Quiet Changes in Bitwarden (itsfoss.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by liverstealer@lemmy.zip to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 42 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I switched to KeePass for the same reason. The only way I trust software is if they'll show me the code, and the only reason to replace "transparency" with "trust" IMHO is because they want to go closed source. Innovation also tends to just mean 'we're going to be charging you for features that used to be free '

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It much work to get all the names and passwords and stuff from BW moved over to keepass?

[–] StumblingWasabi@lemmy.today 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Not really, just had to install KeePass on my computer and export my bitwarden passwords BW makes that easy to do) and import them to KeePass. I haven't set up the browser extension yet, as at a glance it says it doesn't work with browsers installed with flatpak and that's how I have LibreWolf installed. Setting up syncthing was also pretty straightforward.

[–] yestalgia@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Whoa no flatpak support is a problem. Thanks for the heads up.

[–] tekdeb@lemmy.zip 1 points 9 hours ago

I tested this a few weeks ago, but one thing I struggled with was having custom fields imported. Don't know if I somehow did something wrong, but while the export data had them as expected, KeePassXC just didn't import it all? The standard Notes did get imported, but none of my custom fields.