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I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don't think Bitwarden is a terrible choice. That said, I share the author's concerns in general.

How much does a non-selfhosted password manager cost? Weigh that against the cost of remote-mountable server storage, you can simply put your database there.
(Both costs can be 0 btw)

[–] deegeese@sopuli.xyz 4 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

The real cost is time and reliability, not money.

[–] A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip 1 points 8 hours ago

Initially, yes, but no more once you got it working