I've cut down my subscriptions by a lot over the past few years, and I've gotten very close to what I consider a minimum. Whenever possible, I like to buy outright.

However, surely you can understand how not every product can function as a one time purchase. For something like a password manager, they are providing an ongoing service. They are storing and serving your data.

You can self host, sure, and I'm doing a lot of that lately. But not everyone has the capacity or desire to.

All that said, this leadership shakeup is concerning and I think I'll be migrating to Proton, since I already have a Duo plan.

I am totally in line with not agreeing with everything being a subscription. And I absolutely dont agree with subscription creep.

So I minimize what I pay for. And let me say, in no means am I defending the change in Bitwarden here. I would never.

It isn't a realistic expectation to expect any hosted service to be free. Especially in capitalism. Someone will come along and fuck with pricing.

Not everyone has the time, knowledge, or finances to fund self hosting everything.

But to automatically assume everyone is a sheep for using a service that benefits them is a bit of a jump.

Yes, I myself value privacy, security, and the merits of self hosting as much as I can with my resources. And I have had conversations with people on these topics, and there are the folk that lack the understanding of the importance of the hill many of the folk like me stand on. So I have seen the wide spectrum of people who pay for services.

Wild take dude.

yAlL aRe ShEeP blah blah blah...

today it’s 1.65… tomorrow it’s 4.99… next week it’s 12.99… stop being a mindless sheep giving them any sort of leeway. you’re enabling the scammers to literally scam you more, and more and more.

'Mindless sheep'. That's hilarious. But I get it. Nobody likes to pay for shit.