TIL theres a paid version of Bitwarden.
Bitwarden 100% price increase
Submitted 1 month ago by 0485919158191@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.fastcompany.com/91483458/bitwarden-price-increase
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HuudaHarkiten@piefed.social 1 month ago
lyralycan@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
They put a couple things behind the paywall: the ability to securely share files instead of just text, and to host TOTP authentication. As it is I prefer using other services for sharing And while TOTP auth is nice I use Aegis
alakey@piefed.social 1 month ago
While the increase is not a huge deal because the total is still cheaper than alternatives, the thing that irks me is how they did indeed just announced it via a blog post titled “Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone”. This reads like there’s going to be free, premium and premium+ at best, and “we are just adding more stuff to the premium” at worst, not implying a price bump, at least to me. I did not get my renewal email yet, so can’t confirm whether or not they don’t even mention the annual price, but rather just the monthly one. Another thing that kind of bothers me is that they list “Vault health alerts” as a new thing, while it’s always been there. While “Phishing blocker” just seems like a feature outside of the scope of a password manager.
All in all, double the price in exchange for x5 more storage and x2 more hardware keys is fine to me, but I hope they improve their communication and actually properly inform users of upcoming pricing changes.
0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I had my renewal email come through today. Here is what is says: Your Bitwarden Premium subscription renews in 15 days. The price is updating to $1.65/month, billed annually. As an existing Bitwarden customer, you will receive a one-time 25% loyalty discount for this year’s renewal. This renewal will now be billed annually at $14.85 + tax.
orclev@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Interesting. I also had mine come through but it had a different message:
Your Bitwarden Families subscription renews in 15 days. The price is updating to $3.99/month, billed annually.
Questions? Contact support@bitwarden.com
It seems there’s a few variants of the message depending on which product you have and not all of them mention the annual price.
shiftymccool@piefed.ca 1 month ago
Get yourself a mini pc or old laptop and control your own future: https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden
guy@piefed.social 1 month ago
Would love to selfhost. However, I have no trust in my skills to secure my device in the same manner as a provider, and I do not wish my database to be compromised.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Then use Keepass, which is literally just a local app.
ComradeMiao@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I never get this excuse except for ignorance (not being mean to you)—you can export your entire db as a text file then encrypt it if you wanted. Also, if your server goes offline its offline first on all devices
communism@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
I’ve had my VPS exposed to the internet for a while and never been pwned. No professional experience. Use SSH keys, not password authentication. Use FDE if physical access is in your threat model. Use a firewall to prevent connection on internal-only ports.
Vaultwarden will store your passwords encrypted (obviously) so even if your database does get stolen, the attacker shouldn’t be able to read your passwords without your master password.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
TBH, $10/year is a small price not to have to get my wife to change again after lastpass. She is not equipped to deal with enshittification.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 1 month ago
If you do any sort of self-hosting, take a look at Vaultwarden. All the premium functions for free.
Before my entire network setup changed recently for unrelated reasons… I had Vaultwarden running on my home server (TrueNAS) and a free Cloudflare account with a tunnel to my home server and a $5/year domain. Worked for my parents easily and no longer had to worry about the big infrastructure being targeted.
MagicShel@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Possibly but the main thing we find useful is the OTP generation. This means we can both use shared accounts without having to ask the other for a code. That’s probably an edge case, and not enough sites support it, but it’s really nice for the ones that do.
I doubt that is available in self-hosting but I’d be happy to be wrong about that. I have a raspberry pi serving up a couple of local things and I could register a domain if I had a use case for connectivity outside the house.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 1 month ago
brickfrog@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
The link is from February 1st, about a blog post from January. I clicked here thinking Bitwarden just raised their subscription price again haha.
0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sorry!
black_flag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Yeah…they’ve been making a lot of changes to the client, too. I’m not sure what form it will take yet, because idk enough about bitwarden as a company, but get ready for enshittification and forks.
whelk@retrolemmy.com 1 month ago
I got worried the first time they started giving the UI all the rounded corners and more clicks to get anywhere or get anything done. Now there are corpo-cute little waving hand graphics and stuff in the UI. I’ve been migrating to local “pass” because these are always bad signs for a product
solrize@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
You know why Git was written in the first place, right? Some people think ahead.
aReallyCrunchyLeaf@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Bitwarden has a paid version?
0485919158191@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yes indeed.
SapphironZA@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Cant see any changes on the business plans? Anyone see anything on that?
BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 month ago
20$/year is still cheap compared to other password managers, but yeah, the lack of transparency is worrying.
Asetru@feddit.org 1 month ago
Keepass is free?
Sunspear@piefed.social 1 month ago
Thing is, a large percentage of internet-connected users might have two or more devices. The simplicity offered by a cloud (be it hosted or selfhosted) password manager is a huge benefit.
And unless you’re already running a syncthing-like service for something else, setting it up just for a password manager when other services provide it out of the box, is not worth the hassle usually.
BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com 1 month ago
IMO Keepass and Bitwarden aren’t exactly the same, as the latter has cross-device sync built-in.
lastweakness@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I can’t think of a reason to choose Keepass over Vaultwarden.
terabyterex@lemmy.world 1 month ago
so is bitwarden. i dont get your argument here. bitwarden does a lot more for free than keepass