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Bitwarden Makes Change To Address Recent Open-Source Concerns (www.phoronix.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

Initially Bitwarden was one of the most impressive FOSS password managers, but their increasing willingness to trade user privacy for services and promotion by our favorite surveillance capitalist's is the real issue imho. Believing Privacy and Security are inextricably linked, I cannot recommend, nor use them at this time.

A quick scan on Blacklight (TheMarkup's Privacy Tool) is an eye opener.

https://themarkup.org/blacklight?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbitwarden.com%2F&device=mobile&location=us-ca&force=false

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

This is an interesting tool that I'm going to back pocket, so thanks for that. That being said, any trackers and such on Bitwarden.com root page isn't really indicative of the real product, though I'll say it reflects poorly. That page basically is a sales pitch put together by probably a completely separate marketing team.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Blacklight is basically a front-end for DuckDuckGo's open source tracker radar tool. https://github.com/duckduckgo/tracker-radar

In a world increasing dominated by surveillance capitalists and dystopian tech, conscientious consumerism is one of the most effective tools we still have to effect change. Google chooses to sell tech to a Far-Right government's engaged in ethnic cleansing, Bitwarden chooses Google as a business partner for analytics, marketing, cloud services, etc... I choose to not use Bitwarden.

Another resource to assist in choosing which services to use is the open project PrivacySpy. Bitwarden doesn't score very well by their metrics either.

https://privacyspy.org/product/bitwarden/