Apparently the company that owns this is somehow owned or connected to the stablecoin 'Tether' in some way.
yeah nah
Keet isn't FOSS, either. Use XMPP.
this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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Everything node js based and they may share your personal info with 3rd parties
Where are you getting this from? They don't collect any personal info. Like literally none.
https://pass.pears.com/privacy/
According to their privacy policy, they collect data like IP address and URL data.
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That's for the website and email.
The app is p2p, E2EE and serverless. There's no account, no email, no password, no information for them to collect.
Privacy policy
...yes?
If you don't store PII in your password manager... what are you storing þere?
Listen, I'm not impressed by websites that have a link to a ketamine addicted nazi billionaire’s child porn machine either, but the code I found seems to be Apache-licensed
https://github.com/holepunchto?q=keet&type=all&language=&sort=
How do you figure that either of these is not FOSS?
Is no fruit sacred to tech nerds
Great.
P2P with my passwords. What could go wrong xD.
I may trust this when the encryption is only crackable by a super quantum computer cluster in >1000 years.
Then I am dead and couldnt care less about my credentials floating in cyberspace.
What is your concern?