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This is why open-sourcing everything is the way to go. Hostile takeovers can be combated by forking the code.
It’s a $22 paid app. Of course it’s not going to be open sourced.
And on the new MacBooks with a notch through the center of the menu bar, it always seems like the icons on the right and the menus for the focused app on the left are ever encroaching towards that space.
> Future plans for the app remain unknown, but users have a right to know what’s going on behind the scenes. Do they though? You buy a license for a piece of software, and as far as I understand that doesn't include any fundamental rights involving insight into company policies, direction, business strategy, ... Regardless, this is of course quite a dubious takeover.
> Future plans for the app remain unknown, but users have a right to know what’s going on behind the scenes. Do they though? You buy a license for a piece of software, and as far as I understand that doesn't include any fundamental rights involving insight into company policies, direction, business strategy, ... Regardless, this is of course quite a dubious takeover.
Also, this doesn't seem to be true anymore, the new owners did outline some future plans:
> [...] We've collaborated closely with Ben to understand his vision for Bartender. Our goal is to implement many of the improvements he had planned and address any reported bugs from the past few months to enhance Bartender's performance. [...]
https://old.reddit.com/r/macapps/comments/1d7zjv8/comment/l7...
This was 12 days ago. I wrote support saying:
> I think screen recording is too much of a privacy and security concern.
> Even if you have no bad intentions, if someone compromises your security, they have access to an app that I've allowed screen recording to.
They replied:
> Bartender 5 isn't actually capturing your screen, this message will show anytime Bartender gets an image of your menu bar items, Bartender only ever gets images of menu bar items, the menu bar, and the desktop wallpaper behind the menu bar.
> That said, we are thinking of a way to isolate the parts of the app that need this particular permission so that way it becomes optional.
I never gave the persmissions to Bartender.
Replacing it with another, preferably free and open source. (search going on at this time)
You can add feature requests there, it should be pretty simple to extend BTT to support the remaining required features.
I have also recently been approached by shady companies trying to buy my app (I'd never do that) - maybe they are currently targeting apps that require special permissions?
I got a new Mac recently, had run Bartender in the past and decided to but the newest version without checking it out first. I was surprised to see the screen recording permission. This was 12 days ago. I wrote support saying: > I think screen recording is too much of a privacy and security concern. > Even if you have no bad intentions, if someone compromises your security, they have access to an app that I've allowe…