How exactly does that prevent spam, vs just using other existing established verification methods like email validation? If the only goal is preventing spam, its overkill, and other web sites who also have to contend with spam don’t use it.

It’s trivial to create new accounts and emails to verify those accounts. It is not trivial to get a new phone number since virtual numbers are blocked by the verification process.

Neither have sauce in them, they are more akin to a calzone

I believe the developer is in complete control of the pricing on steam, so it would be the developer being shady

you can, yes. it’s called hard drive shucking and is extremely common.

Is it just me or does that “comparison” make no sense for this thread. It’s mostly comparing vaultwarden to the cloud version of bitwarden, not the self hosted version. It only mentions the self hosted version in passing. It doesn’t do anything to help someone choose between vaultwarden and self hosted bitwarden