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What looks odd to me is this silence about acquisition. I've got a lot of emails and read enough blog posts from developers that brags about new owners and new

by nazgu1 2y ago

What looks odd to me is this silence about acquisition. I've got a lot of emails and read enough blog posts from developers that brags about new owners and new opportunities that goes with it. Bartender is just utility app, but has permissions to e.g screen recording, so new version from new developer without prior explanation just seems shady

xyst 2y ago
Probably going to slip an AI “feature” into it somehow but it’s really just windows recall under the hood
TillE 2y ago
The Mac app scene especially is pretty small and tight-knit. Lots of indie developers have been around for decades and know each other well. That makes it even more jarring for an app to get acquired by a totally unknown company.
- kotaKat 2y ago
  I'm surprised people keep trying to touch macOS apps like this. macOS productivity app users are some of the most keen and aware users on the market. Trying to pull a move like this and trying to hide it away like a quiet fart? We can smell enshittification from a mile away and we already know it smells like shit in here.
radlad 2y ago
With the most recent update, macOS notified me that I needed to allow new permissions. But macOS didn't explain that this was because the cert changed. When I Googled the issue, I found this support article: https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/ https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/ The support article doesn't mention the cert change or the new owners, and instead calls it "a known issue where certain apps, including Bartender, might not receive Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions properly, despite the user granting them in System Settings." Highly disingenuous. I've uninstalled Bartender.
- hbn 2y ago
  I couldn't get the screen recording permission to work at all after the last update. I emailed the dev(s?) and had a short exchange where they tried to help but it never got resolved. But after this I'm not trusting it at all.
Kovah 2y ago
Reminds me of the silent takeover of the Stylish browser extension that was sold to some analytics company and then reported your complete browsing history to said company. No information to the users until someone noticed what what going on. Similar things seemed to have happened to the ModHeader extension, newer versions now inject ads.
- afh1 2y ago
  If only developers were required by package managers to sign packages with their own keys, and users warned on signature changes...
- asachanfbd 2y ago
  This seems to be a regular industry practice, better to move away as soon as you get to know about the change.

by nazgu1 2y ago

xyst 2y ago

Probably going to slip an AI “feature” into it somehow but it’s really just windows recall under the hood

TillE 2y ago

The Mac app scene especially is pretty small and tight-knit. Lots of indie developers have been around for decades and know each other well. That makes it even more jarring for an app to get acquired by a totally unknown company.

kotaKat 2y ago
I'm surprised people keep trying to touch macOS apps like this. macOS productivity app users are some of the most keen and aware users on the market. Trying to pull a move like this and trying to hide it away like a quiet fart? We can smell enshittification from a mile away and we already know it smells like shit in here.

radlad 2y ago

With the most recent update, macOS notified me that I needed to allow new permissions. But macOS didn't explain that this was because the cert changed. When I Googled the issue, I found this support article: https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/ https://www.macbartender.com/Bartender5/PermissionIssues/ The support article doesn't mention the cert change or the new owners, and instead calls it "a known issue where certain apps, including Bartender, might not receive Accessibility and Screen Recording permissions properly, despite the user granting them in System Settings." Highly disingenuous. I've uninstalled Bartender.

hbn 2y ago
I couldn't get the screen recording permission to work at all after the last update. I emailed the dev(s?) and had a short exchange where they tried to help but it never got resolved. But after this I'm not trusting it at all.

Kovah 2y ago

Reminds me of the silent takeover of the Stylish browser extension that was sold to some analytics company and then reported your complete browsing history to said company. No information to the users until someone noticed what what going on. Similar things seemed to have happened to the ModHeader extension, newer versions now inject ads.

afh1 2y ago
If only developers were required by package managers to sign packages with their own keys, and users warned on signature changes...
asachanfbd 2y ago
This seems to be a regular industry practice, better to move away as soon as you get to know about the change.