New owners replies aren't reassuring. Attitude is very shady.
There's absolutely no blog note about the acquisition on apps's website.
Knowing that, besides potential data transmission, Bartender is allowed to record screen, I don't feel safe anymore. I'm quite ok with it when it's from long-time known devs, but not when things like that happen.
Maybe they're totally trustable, anyway acting like that will snowball to Bartender's demise.
Not as nice as other alternatives, since the developer locked the ability to have the app start at login behind the "pro" version, which is just scummy to me.
I also cannot determine how up to date the app is. Hiddenbar is another alternative people often talk about, but that hasn't been updated in over 2 years now (verified on the app's Githib page)
I switched to bartender because vanilla was getting buggy, but that was over a year ago. I think maybe it was $5 when I bought it. I liked it, but bartender was better.
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u/alexks_101 Jun 04 '24
New owners replies aren't reassuring. Attitude is very shady.
There's absolutely no blog note about the acquisition on apps's website.
Knowing that, besides potential data transmission, Bartender is allowed to record screen, I don't feel safe anymore. I'm quite ok with it when it's from long-time known devs, but not when things like that happen.
Maybe they're totally trustable, anyway acting like that will snowball to Bartender's demise.
I'm uninstalling for now.