I’ve cancelled my subscription yesterday, conveniently it was about to renew at the end of the week, so I have a few days to migrate from Proton, here’s what I’m thinking of, but I’d love to hear what other people are switching to
I’ve cancelled my subscription yesterday, conveniently it was about to renew at the end of the week, so I have a few days to migrate from Proton, here’s what I’m thinking of, but I’d love to hear what other people are switching to
Bitwarden’s gone private equity. I’d hold off on switching to them; maybe try to live with KeePass if you’re not on a family plan.
I switched over to vaultwarden. I am stuck on an iPhone for the time being and I don’t care for all the Keepass ios apps.
Completely valid. I myself am still on Bitwarden, waiting for the other shoe to drop, but my family is already entrenched in it.
I think if I have to move them again, I might seriously consider forking keepass, adding the features I use in bitwarden.
I do not look forward to dealing with IOS tho.
Vaultwarden is completely Bitwarden-compatible. You can export all data from Bitwarden server/service, import it into Vaultwarden server, and your family will not notice the change at all, except you’ll ask them to change address in their already installed Bitwarden app.
They don’t need to change anything else. To them, it will still be the same Bitwarden.
Here lie dragons: for as long as the private equity firm that owns Bitwarden chooses to let us use their clients.
There are non-Bitwarden Android clients around, but they lack Chrome extensions and IOS.
True, this is a possibility. But, in years of Vaultwarden’s existence, this never happened.
100% but for years of Vaultwarden’s existence, they haven’t been owned by private equity.
Just keep your eyes open and know that it could come for us. I’ve stopped counting on how many services went private->enshitify bad enough for me to bail.
Fair enough. In case we do need to move, here’s a quick tip: KeepassXC and many other password managers are able to read Bitwarden export files, so you can seamlessly move credentials there, should the need arise.
Also, Vaultwarden has a web interface, which can do as a temporary or full substitute. I used it for a while, it’s totally doable.
Oddly, i knew that to be the case deep down, and if someone had asked me if that worked, i’d have gone yeah absolutely, but I didn’t even think about it as a backup strategy, that’s 100% my plan going forward now :)
there’s still vaultwarden. i just self-host that and use the official bitwarden clients (android app + firefox extension). even if bitwarden itself shits the bed and takes their clients down with it, i don’t doubt there will be alternatives up and running relatively quick.
I would switch to KeePass if its sync method was more sane than “big binary file + Syncthing”, it seems like all the password manager options kindof suck in some way
aughhh dealing with syncthing and keepass was a painnnnnn. it was way too easy for things to desync. i just switched to my own vaultwarden instance and called it a day.
Yeah, there are a bunch of ways to tackle that. Chunk-Based Content-Addressable Block Storage (that weird thing where they put a folder of 0-A the folders under that with hex-based naming and small chunks of data wouldn’t be horrible keeping update sizes managable. The real problem there is dealing with Syncthing conflict files. The monobinary is either new or old. Maybe a local-only CBC with deltas delivered by syncthing so they can overwrite each other and a rollback/history option.
P2P anything is complicated. Something as damning and imporant as password management makes it so much worse.