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Bitwarden 200% Price Increase

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4 pointsjandeboevrie7 comments

Still a compelling value. I keep eyeing it to see if I should switch from 1Password, but I also worry about the complexity of transitioning the whole family over.

Bogus title.

True: Bitwarden launches enhanced premium plan: Complete online security for everyone

Title is misinformation, price went from around 85 cents a month to 1.65 a month which is around $20 a year, and I'm pretty sure the price for individual premium has been the same since 2016 or thereabouts.

A $200 increase would be $30 (which it isn't).

Also, this seems to be a duplicate of: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46710254

Enshittification arrives as it always does.

Can you please explain how paying less than $100 a month is enshittification?

Like private equity, the price will need to keep going up. Bitwarden has financial targets to hit, they took $100M in VC money in 2022. LastPass is currently owned by PE as well (Francisco Partners and Elliott Management). As an investor, in this context, you're buying the lock in and inertia for customers who might take their time moving to other user secret and idp systems (because it takes time and effort to effectively move with minimal enterprise disruption).

Once these comments burn in after ~2 hours, we can of course revisit the thread in the future to see if this turns out to be an accurate prediction. I admit, I could be wrong, predicting the future is hard, but history is fairly clear how this turns out (to the point that "enshittification" was coined).

Bitwarden raises $100M - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32735479 - September 2022 (497 comments)

Accelerating Value for Bitwarden Users - Bitwarden raises $100 million - https://bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden-... - September 6th, 2022

I still don't get how this is "enshittification"?

Bitwarden has to compete with LastPass, Dashlane, 1Password, etc for market share to be around. I mean what should they do not to be seen as "enshittifying"?

Also:

1. Bitwarden is open source, so for those that think it is "enshittifying", can run it for free?

2. So what isn't being "enshittified"? Anything that is open source, free, not owned by PE or VCs and will never take investment?

1Password was bootstrapped for almost 15 years without investment then took investment and suddenly now counts as being "enshittified"?

It seems that "enshittification" (by definition) is incompatible with market competition and fosters it.

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