Great find. This blog post - and specifically the background of the new management team - convinced me to start looking for a Bitwarden alternative. I’m watching the same “boil the frog” strategy unfold at Namecheap, and erode much of the brand trust they had built up over a decade, and it’s a shame.

Excellent now I have to find something else again. You can’t fucking trust anyone not to chase money these days.

Fuck bitwardens creators for selling out. I want them to know they fucking suck.

This post is what triggered me to cancel my subscription and migrate away from Bitwarden in July. I’ve seen too many repeats of this show. This has completely soured me from cloud-backed critical software. Slowly moving toward offline alternatives wherever possible and self-hosting when it isn’t.

Thank you for linking this, the price increase was indeed communicated to me directly via email but not very clearly

> The price is updating to $1.65/month, billed annually.

Followed by a 25% discount for this reveal only.

Have to go back to my old invoice to see it was $10/y and now the new one $19.80/y

I never liked that I needed to pay premium just for 2FA but this abuse of trust is definitely the end of it.

Too bad I won't get a refund for my Oct 1st renewal but I'll happily cancel as soon as I get vaultwarden hosted.

Ok this is doing some damage. What's a possible alternative that works on both mobile and desktop, doesn't require yourself to run a server, and doesn't have worse reputation?

Is there any writing on it that was written by a human? This blog post is clearly AI.

It's somewhat concerning to me that none of the security conscious people in this thread seem to notice that they are changing their privacy practices based on the advice of a language model pretending to be a person.

I hate this. So much software I love keeps doing this. redis, docker, now bitwarden. I was so happy with bitwarden. Been a premium subscriber for many years. I have helped convert many people, including whole companies, to use this. Now they are doing us such a disservice. We need a completely free, no-nonsence, alternative. I wonder if it is possible to do a ipfs/torrent version without a central authority to permanently prevent this type of issue.

I feel like this blog post deserves its own submission to HN

Started humany but degraded into LLM speak towards the end. Especial the Vaultwarden section.

Unfortunately, any "insight" it might contain is ruined by the fact it's clearly written by an LLM instead of a person.

> And it never comes in a single dramatic announcement. It comes in layers. A feature post with a price change inside it. A LinkedIn update nobody made a press release about. A values page that says something slightly different than it did last week. If you’re still on Bitwarden cloud and this is giving you pause — it should. [...] Whether self-hosting stays viable long-term is the real question worth sitting with.