This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I just installed Bitwarden because 979 2FA started refusing to show my codes unless I set up a password and fingerprint (and fails when I try anyway). Now to find something else I guess.
Self hosting is the new battefront for the individual's right to sovereign data
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".
I don't need my password manager to innovate anything. I would very much like it to include support for all of my tools and machines though.
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
It's the change from "users" and "community members" to "customers" for me.
Ty. So many comments here didn't see your post and others did but didn't read it. My take is innovation is a greater priority, and trust protocols. I'll watch but I'll wait for it to be a something burger.
"Equity" or "Capital" = the kiss of death
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!
My question is move to vaultwarden, and trust they will still develop the open source client apps, or just preemptively move to another system. The UX isnt perfect, but it seems a lot easier to use than kerpassxc. Time to do some research.
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.
It takes a full 3 minutes to try an alternative. Export, install new one, import. Install extensions where you need them and sync.
Just FYI, you can export your Bitwarden database to plain text and import that with KeePassXC
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.
Great I bought a paid subscription for it all this time for it to end up like this, I'm done with anything that is not self hosted now on, I'll just convert my old laptop into a home server
This. At this rate everything that has growth and not open source is just a resource to exploit.
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.
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.
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
reading this as someone who migrated the rest of the household to Bitwarden literally yesterday: 😒
I swear, equity is literaly just pure evil, allowed to thrive only due to lack of force opposing it.
why even have "Motto" if you are just going to renege on it.
In this case, not having a motto would have made them able to get further down the enshittification path before anyone noticed. They just warned us.
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
I guess I won't be recommending Botwarden to normies anymore.
1Password took investor funding, moved to subscription and focusing on corporate.
Bitwarden heading the same way. Great…
Great. Now I have to move all of my password to another services because of a stupid decision made by a company.
