youradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoA VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Themwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square147linkfedilinkarrow-up1655arrow-down19
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minus-squareimecth@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up56arrow-down1·2 days agoIt was obviously a cash grab from the company before fucking off, you can’t reasonably expect a lifetime vpn for 30 bucks. Either it eventually gets repriced, or they start mining all your information like every other “free” vpns.
minus-squareJohnnyCanuck@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35arrow-down1·2 days agoYeah this looks to me like everyone got scammed, including the new owners.
minus-squareAkasazh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 day agoYet that was exactly what they sold, this is not too blame in the customer. They built a subscriber base on those purchases which is capital to them. They need to uphold the contract that they entered in to.
It was obviously a cash grab from the company before fucking off, you can’t reasonably expect a lifetime vpn for 30 bucks. Either it eventually gets repriced, or they start mining all your information like every other “free” vpns.
Yeah this looks to me like everyone got scammed, including the new owners.
Yet that was exactly what they sold, this is not too blame in the customer. They built a subscriber base on those purchases which is capital to them.
They need to uphold the contract that they entered in to.