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Bitwarden introduced a non-free dependency to their clients. The Bitwarden CTO tried to frame this as a bug but his explanation does not really make it any less concerning.

Perhaps it is time for alternative Bitwarden-compatible clients. An open source client that's not based on Electron would be nice. Or move to something else entirely? Are there any other client-server open source password managers?

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[–] 4shtonButcher@discuss.tchncs.de 113 points 2 years ago (14 children)

Can’t we ever have software that just keeps working? Password managers are like the new RSS readers.

  1. search around for a good one
  2. find a nice one and start using it
  3. they add stuff you didn’t want and slowly make it worse
  4. they’re bought up/ abandoned/ otherwise become unviable

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[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 40 points 2 years ago (10 children)
[–] jasep@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago (9 children)

The downside to Keepass is it is not self hosted, as in it's designed to run locally per device. Yes, you can put the database file on a network and have multiple clients from different operating systems access the database, but you will end up with collisions and database issues. Ask me how I know.

Running cross platform Keepass (and it's various forks) is absolutely doable, but it is not as seemless as BitWarden. I'm running self hosted VaultWarden and I'm hoping to run it for a long time as it's much easier than Keepass.

[–] brayd@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's a fair point

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