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In the latest episode of "they will always sell you out" - they sold you out! Who would've thought.

Hoping for a good alternative client to appear, the writing is on the wall. Vaultwarden can't exist without "leeching" off of Bitwarden.

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[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago (3 children)

yeah fuck that... fuck subscriptions ALL OF THEM. fucn these companies, ALL OF THEM.

stop giving any of these pricks any slack. none of them deserve it, nor money.

today it's 1.65... tomorrow it's 4.99... next week it's 12.99.. stop being a mindless sheep giving them any sort of leeway. you're enabling the scammers to literally scam you more, and more and more.

I'm relocating all my shit right now because we'll.. fuck em. I am loyal to NO COMPANY. none of them deserve anything but bankruptcy at a minimum.

[–] iamthetot@piefed.ca 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've cut down my subscriptions by a lot over the past few years, and I've gotten very close to what I consider a minimum. Whenever possible, I like to buy outright.

However, surely you can understand how not every product can function as a one time purchase. For something like a password manager, they are providing an ongoing service. They are storing and serving your data.

You can self host, sure, and I'm doing a lot of that lately. But not everyone has the capacity or desire to.

All that said, this leadership shakeup is concerning and I think I'll be migrating to Proton, since I already have a Duo plan.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago

You don't need to self-host at all! Daisy-chain your needed files via Syncthing and Syncthing-Fork. That's literally what I do with KeePassXC and KeePassDX, keeping everything offline.

[–] hellmo_luciferrari@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

I am totally in line with not agreeing with everything being a subscription. And I absolutely dont agree with subscription creep.

So I minimize what I pay for. And let me say, in no means am I defending the change in Bitwarden here. I would never.

It isn't a realistic expectation to expect any hosted service to be free. Especially in capitalism. Someone will come along and fuck with pricing.

Not everyone has the time, knowledge, or finances to fund self hosting everything.

But to automatically assume everyone is a sheep for using a service that benefits them is a bit of a jump.

Yes, I myself value privacy, security, and the merits of self hosting as much as I can with my resources. And I have had conversations with people on these topics, and there are the folk that lack the understanding of the importance of the hill many of the folk like me stand on. So I have seen the wide spectrum of people who pay for services.

Wild take dude.

yAlL aRe ShEeP blah blah blah...

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

today it’s 1.65… tomorrow it’s 4.99… next week it’s 12.99… stop being a mindless sheep giving them any sort of leeway. you’re enabling the scammers to literally scam you more, and more and more.

'Mindless sheep'. That's hilarious. But I get it. Nobody likes to pay for shit.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, I tell you, I wish I could live in a fantasy world where everything is free.

[–] skeezix@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not sure about “everything”, but plenty of password managers are.

[–] irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

There are a handful of things I do not self host.

  • arr stack
  • password managers
  • anything financial