I use Bitwarden almost 2yrs and my renewal is coming soon and I hesitate if I should do it because I see no benefit, the only thing I might miss is emergency access nothing else. yubikey i don't use, save 2fa in bitwarden never, Vote Vault Health Dashboard is useless, has no use. right now I'm testing Proton Pass but I won't move yet but I like the ease of use UI. It's not that I can't afford it, but see no benefit. Appreciate your recommendation

Hello guys,

I joined Bitwarden recently and I would like you to reasure me. As a long time non-user of password manager, I tended to trust my human memory to remember my password, and in my mind, those passwords were quite challenging to guess. But then, I read a comic from XKCD and articles about how password manager are better, etc. And I decided to trust Bitwarden.

Bitwarden is so popular: it's free, open source and seems trustworthy.

The problem is that now, I have some doubt.

"If it's free, you are the product." That saying is common sense here, in the internet. So why are we trusting Bitwarden all our passwords? Because it's open source? Because everyone is parotting that it's good, it's well protected because of "idunnowhatencryptionsorcery" and good policy and ethics? What proof do we have? Some... allegations by people online we don't even know personally? What will keep Bitwarden from going insane and do something like : "You want your passwords? Haha, now pay me 100 bitcoins".

Really, I don't want to shoot at Bitwarden or any other password manager. But reassure me, please.

Thank you in advance.

Edit: thanks for your answers, I am more serene now. I'm thinking about buying a Yubikey too, but it's another problem.