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by shrew 1923 days ago
The promise of this is great and being a feature of Bitwarden, which is already fairly well trusted, is a plus in terms of peace of mind. But did anyone else find the demonstration a bit underwhelming?

I've used sites like One Time Secret[0] before and one of the big benefits is that it's pretty fast to store the sensitive data, grab the link and send back to the colleague. Bitwarden Send looks as though you need to be logged in to the Bitwarden site, dig out the feature page among the rest of your password manager and fill out a whole form in order to get a link to send, which would add a barrier to entry for the whole process that wouldn't encourage its use.

Maybe it's just me. It certainly looks like a good feature either way.

[0] https://onetimesecret.com/

2 comments

Well, most people use Bitwarden through apps, and this is present in their apps.

I think it’s a mistake to think of Bitwarden send as a stand-alone product, but rather as a convenient feature add to their existing (free and open source) password manager.

That barrier to entry may reduce the amount of nafarious users uploading files, which is what led to Firefox Send's demise.