https://left4more.com/tags/password-managers/Recent content in Password-Managers on Left 4 MoreHugoen-auSat, 16 May 2026 10:08:00 +1000https://left4more.com/posts/the-slow-enshittification-of-bitwarden-or-why-we-c/Sat, 16 May 2026 10:08:00 +1000https://left4more.com/posts/the-slow-enshittification-of-bitwarden-or-why-we-c/<p>There&rsquo;s a particular kind of dread that comes from watching a tool you actually trust start to show cracks. Not a dramatic collapse, just a quiet shifting of furniture. A page quietly updated. A couple of long-serving executives out the door. A new CEO whose LinkedIn profile prominently features &ldquo;mergers and acquisitions&rdquo; and experience with private equity firms.</p> <p>That&rsquo;s where Bitwarden is right now.</p> <p>If you&rsquo;re not across it: Bitwarden is a password manager with a genuinely good reputation. Open source, reasonably priced, a free tier that wasn&rsquo;t insulting, and a self-hosted option that let the more technically minded run their own server. That last part spawned Vaultwarden, a community-built alternative server implementation that made self-hosting dramatically easier. The whole setup was, frankly, a model for how this stuff could work.</p>