I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden

6 months ago by mesa to c/technology

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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punrca 29 points 5 months ago

I use KeepassXC on my laptop (completely offline), export the encrypted backup copy and store the backup offline copy and in cloud. Also, I manually import the backup file into my Keepass2AndroidOffline android app (it's a hassle, but I'm okay with it)

But for normies (non-technical folks), the benefits and convenience of using a cloud-based password manager is far outweighed by any security vulnerabilities in such password managers.

Also, Bitwarden's source code is open-source (unlike other closed-source password managers), so I trust it more.

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HubertManne 7 points 5 months ago

Im one of the folks that reserve important items for local password manager and use bitwarden for all the various sites that if it got taken over it might be annoying but is not the end of the world.

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