Disappointed to report that the glory days of #AgileBits (aka the makers of #1Password who have abandoned AgileBits and just become 1Password the Company) are over.
1Password had been showing early signs of #Enshittification with the update from version 7 to version 8.
As of today I can tell it's turning into nagware: treating the UI as a billboard for advertising, and most obviously & predictably boiling the frog via a rentier capitalism subscription model, despite prior assurances.
LOL. Purely coincidental I'm sure, but it takes some Google prompt engineering to search for 1Password employee union and NOT get recommended the #1Password Careers page as the first result 🤔
> "1Password" "employee union"
☝️ that works, well, as of 2024-01-14. Anyhow…
An Employee Union is absolutely a way to slow down #Enshittification, possibly a way to prevent it, and MAYBE a way to cure it. An employee union and a consumer union: a one-two-punch to counter shareholder myopia.
I realized I'd gone from feeling vigilance was enough with the #1Password#enshittification trajectory to realizing I'd now have to start planning to retool my 1Password-centric workflow, which I'd also roped my husband into.
We're already subscribers; I won't feel like that was forced on me. It will depend on how much they squeeze the pricetag and how much they try and covertly advertise to me and subvert my attention.
I hope I have years with them still. Time enough for them to unionize :)
@patrickleavy no moreso and probably slower than all things that accept VC funding and eventually must enshittify.
"I hope I have YEARS with them still" emphasis this time on YEARS is how long I believe it might take them before I feel compelled to switch. I have a lot of sunk cost AND I'm still very happy with the product. They have a lot of good will to erode.
Maybe yeah, with less investment in the brand and less sunk cost you might shop for community supported options. But no need to rush.
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