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.

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.

  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
    426·
    3 days ago

    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.