youradhere@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 15 hours agoA VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Themwww.wired.comexternal-linkmessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1491arrow-down16
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minus-squareimecth@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up51arrow-down1·14 hours 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-squareAkasazh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 hours 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.
minus-squareJohnnyCanuck@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32arrow-down1·14 hours agoYeah this looks to me like everyone got scammed, including the new owners.
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.
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.
Yeah this looks to me like everyone got scammed, including the new owners.