Get your passwords out of Bitwarden while you still can

The password-manager world is having a full-on trust meltdown after OSnews warned people to get their passwords out of Bitwarden "while you still can." The article points to a new chief executive with a reputation for buying, cutting, and cashing out, a quiet price hike for paid users, and a blink-and-you-miss-it moment where Bitwarden’s beloved “Always free” promise vanished from its website before suddenly reappearing after people on social media noticed. Add in a company values rewrite — with “Inclusion” and “Transparency” swapped out for “Innovation” and “Trust” — and commenters immediately started reading this like the opening scene of a corporate disaster movie.

But the comments are where the real fireworks are. One camp basically said, calm down, calling the headline dramatic and arguing users will almost certainly still be able to export their data later. Another camp was not laughing: they said the bigger issue is the classic pattern of private-equity-style squeeze tactics, with one commenter summing it up in three brutal words: “A tale as old as time, enshittification.” Others skipped the panic and went straight to survival mode, bragging about self-hosted alternatives and backup plans like digital preppers. There was even a delightfully petty fantasy about creating corporate “poison pills” to stop acquisitions from wrecking beloved products. So no, the crowd can’t agree on whether Bitwarden is doomed tomorrow — but they absolutely agree on one thing: once money people show up, everyone starts checking the exits.