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We Overhauled Our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - Another VC funded bait and switch (zed.dev)
submitted 6 hours ago by theherk@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev
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Following in the footsteps of Hashicorp, Hudson, etc. Zed has chosen to cash in the good will of its now substantial user base and start going to full corporate enshittification. Among other things like minimum age nonsense, they have also added binding mandatory opt-OUT arbitration.

I find such agreements very troubling, because it gives up public funded dispute resolution for private which nearly unanimously benefits larger entities, it lowers transparency to near zero, and eliminates the abilities to act as a class and to appeal. But I worry most will just accept it, as is the norm.

You can however opt out by emailing arbitration-opt-out@zed.dev with full legal name, the email address associated with your account, and a statement that you want to opt out.

I'll just consider my days of advocating for Zed as an interesting new editor over and go back to Neovim bliss.

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[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

They have some functionality for which you can login, and only at login are you asked to agree to the terms. Presumably you can just use the offline functionality of the editor just fine without agreeing to anything other than the AGPL.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 hours ago

This is perfectly fine to me. The only features that require an account are AI and chat, two features which make perfect sense to have an account for.

I personally don't even use these features. In fact, I have this in my zed settings.

{
    "disable_ai": true,
    "title_bar": {
        "show_sign_in": false
    }
}