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I used FFFF for a few years, and it always felt like it was trying to _exactly_ meet a set of requirements -- functional enough to legally fulfill a contract, b
by meatmanek 4y ago
I used FFFF for a few years, and it always felt like it was trying to _exactly_ meet a set of requirements -- functional enough to legally fulfill a contract, but just frustrating enough to use that most people would go use a paid product instead.
e.g. it would do all the math that was defined on a given form for you, but wouldn't fill out any worksheets in the instructions. IIRC it also wouldn't automatically fill in the "Enter $X if filing single, $Y if married, ..." fields. Most annoyingly, it disallowed copy/paste, which seems like something they would've had to have broken on purpose.
Wayback machine seems to be broken for the FFFF homepage, but the earliest result for the privacy_security.php page is from February, and it already mentions On-Line Taxes: https://web.archive.org/web/20220211143256/https://freefilefillableforms.com/home/privacy_security.php https://web.archive.org/web/20220211143256/https://freefilef...
But yeah it definitely used to be owned by Intuit. This 2020 Wayback Machine result shows it being owned by Intuit: https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025728/https://www.freefilefillableforms.com/static/fed_terms_of_service.html https://web.archive.org/web/20200418025728/https://www.freef...
Maybe the new owners can fix its bad attitude.
- PaulDavisThe1st 4y agoAs I mentioned, every year that I've used it (I think 5 at this point), it has gotten a little bit better. More form-to-form transfers, less manual arithmetic within forms.
- jrib 4y agoI've used it routinely for many years now. I also used it for VA which had similar free fillable forms. It seemed like an exact copy UI-wise but on a different domain. However, this past year VA dropped free fillable forms due to lack of funding. Had to go back to mailing forms :/