Why did you switch from bitwarden?
Because they did some stuff a while back with closed source code, and it scared me off. I’m not the most tech literate person, so I mainly base my stuff off what the open source nerds tell me to do. With a password manager in particular I wanted to be on something open source, because I don’t trust big corpos not to backdoor into my shit, especially since I don’t really understand how it works and don’t know how to keep myself safe other than listening to people who know more than I do. So when the open source folks started saying get off bitwarden, I did, because I saw what happened with other password managers that had leaks and hacks. Plus, I wanted a vpn anyway (and now actually need one if I want to watch porn in my Christofascist state), and they only charge me like 20 bucks for everything.
Bitwarden made a mistake. They accidentally made a PR that would have added their internal-sdk (not foss) to one of their foss clients. They admitted this was a mistake. And a short time later, they remedied the situation by just making their internal-sdk foss as well. I guess what I’m saying is that there tends to be a fierce retaliation against these incidents. But I think we should give the companies time to fix their mistakes. I understand that in Bitwarden’s case it was a matter of closed-vs-open source. And in this case, it’s a political stance by a board member. I personally would like to give Proton the chance to fix the problem before leaving, such as firing Andy. But many may already feel that Proton dropped the ball, and that this is irrecoverable.
