I've cancelled my subscription yesterday, conveniently it was about to renew at the end of the week, so I have a few days to migrate from Proton, here's what I'm thinking of, but I'd love to hear what other people are switching to
I've been using KeePassXC with Syncthing for years and it's been great as a password manager for myself. But I don't need to share those credentials with anyone.
Iβm tired
Bitwarden is pivoting towards the same enshittification path as everything else, so thatβs not gonna be a good long term for a password manager. They hired a new ceo whose only noteworthy experience is prepping companies for mergers and acquisitions, and briefly removed messaging on their website about always having a free tier which they reinstated after backlash. All signs point to a sinking ship, imo.
I donβt have the answer for what to use instead since Iβm still a paid subscriber with them, but Iβm looking around. Probably keepassxc but I donβt know enough to host and sync my own.
this is exhausting
Obsidian is proprietary. It can go fuck itself.
I don't know if I'd still suggest Bitwarden with the dual-licensing drama from not too long ago and the new CEO.
I wouldn't trust Bitwarden anymore. I don't believe they've done anything bad just yet, but they recently sold out to a private equity firm and quite literally removed "transparency" from their company values. KeePassXC is your friend.
IVPN is a well-established private VPN provider, with a strong track record.
Windscribe is also of note, being part of the cross-promotional circle of agreements with other established and trusted services such as Tuta, and Addy.io
Obscura is also worth a look for the especially privacy minded approach they take to running a VPN, essentially severing the entry and exit points of your network traffic across providers so that even if Obscura or their partners were to fail a user's privacy, there wouldn't be anything lost.
Mullvad is also a longstanding and respected VPN but I believe there's been pretty severe controversy around them recently, and that should be looked into before considering them. They were essentially the gold-standard up until recently.
All of these providers have a variety of anonymous payment methods, to varying degrees of convinience and anonimity.
Bitwarden's gone private equity. I'd hold off on switching to them; maybe try to live with KeePass if you're not on a family plan.
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