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You can still specify your default vault, though, to be your private one, right? (I say this as somebody who is looking to get off of 1P.)

jrochkind1 5y ago
how come you're looking to get off? I have been looking to get ON!
- natch 5y ago
  Subscription fees / rent seeking?
  - kevindong 5y ago
    Can you expand on what you mean by "rent seeking" in this context? Regarding subscription fees, there's nothing wrong with paying for software.
    - npteljes 5y ago
      Especially that one pays for a service in case of 1P.
      - evanb 5y ago
        I _bought_ 1P way before it was a service. I continued to pay for upgrades. I don't want a subscription, and I don't want to be forced into their black-box syncing. I've been migrating to the free software pass [0]. [0] https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/
        npteljes 5y ago
        I see, I wasn't aware that they are / were doing a standalone software version too. I always knew about them as a web service.
        jtbayly 5y ago
        There is no reason for it to be a web service. Why should I pay for their cloud when I already have access to storage on three clouds, two of which they used to support, but have now removed from their software, just so they can force me to pay them every month? Oh man, it makes me mad.
    - natch 5y ago
      No, it’s a well understood concept. giyf. I did pay for their software. Then they decided to try to exploit their position in a way favorable to them, and unfavorable to me. Nope.
- jtbayly 5y ago
  They are making the app worse (removing local vaults, making their mac app and iOS app crappy) so that they can force me to pay them more. Why would I agree to that? I resent it, and I'm leaving.
malfist 5y ago
I know this is a tired trope on HN, but I love my bitwarden. I switched from lastpass and the transition was mostly seamless. There's some hiccups with the transfer but it's all worked out now. The biggest difficulty I had is that bitwarden doesn't have a lot of "equivalent domains" to map web urls to android app namespaces, but that's a one time fix. Sometimes bitwarden takes two tries to input a password on my phone, but lastpass broke it's support for firefox on android over a year ago and hasn't bothered to fix it.
- jtbayly 5y ago
  Bitwarden has finally added support for multiple accounts on desktop. Presumably mobile will follow. That will probably make it usable for me. As it is, I have tons of organization accounts and personal accounts and Bitwarden offers me no way to efficiently switch/filter between those groups of accounts.
- aniforprez 5y ago
  Tropes exist for a reason. Bitwarden is perfectly fine and functional and does its job very well. As you mentioned, there's some hiccups but for the most part it seems like a much better alternative to LastPass

jrochkind1 5y ago

how come you're looking to get off? I have been looking to get ON!

natch 5y ago
Subscription fees / rent seeking?
- kevindong 5y ago
  Can you expand on what you mean by "rent seeking" in this context? Regarding subscription fees, there's nothing wrong with paying for software.
  - npteljes 5y ago
    Especially that one pays for a service in case of 1P.
    - evanb 5y ago
      I _bought_ 1P way before it was a service. I continued to pay for upgrades. I don't want a subscription, and I don't want to be forced into their black-box syncing. I've been migrating to the free software pass [0]. [0] https://www.passwordstore.org/ https://www.passwordstore.org/
      - npteljes 5y ago
        I see, I wasn't aware that they are / were doing a standalone software version too. I always knew about them as a web service.
        jtbayly 5y ago
        There is no reason for it to be a web service. Why should I pay for their cloud when I already have access to storage on three clouds, two of which they used to support, but have now removed from their software, just so they can force me to pay them every month? Oh man, it makes me mad.
  - natch 5y ago
    No, it’s a well understood concept. giyf. I did pay for their software. Then they decided to try to exploit their position in a way favorable to them, and unfavorable to me. Nope.
jtbayly 5y ago
They are making the app worse (removing local vaults, making their mac app and iOS app crappy) so that they can force me to pay them more. Why would I agree to that? I resent it, and I'm leaving.

malfist 5y ago

I know this is a tired trope on HN, but I love my bitwarden. I switched from lastpass and the transition was mostly seamless. There's some hiccups with the transfer but it's all worked out now. The biggest difficulty I had is that bitwarden doesn't have a lot of "equivalent domains" to map web urls to android app namespaces, but that's a one time fix. Sometimes bitwarden takes two tries to input a password on my phone, but lastpass broke it's support for firefox on android over a year ago and hasn't bothered to fix it.

jtbayly 5y ago
Bitwarden has finally added support for multiple accounts on desktop. Presumably mobile will follow. That will probably make it usable for me. As it is, I have tons of organization accounts and personal accounts and Bitwarden offers me no way to efficiently switch/filter between those groups of accounts.
aniforprez 5y ago
Tropes exist for a reason. Bitwarden is perfectly fine and functional and does its job very well. As you mentioned, there's some hiccups but for the most part it seems like a much better alternative to LastPass