Bartender app’s new owner has burnt years of good-will with a lack of transparency

Popular app Bartender was quietly bought, and a shady certificate replacement, insertion of invasive telemetry, and a lack of transparent responses by the new owners has shaken confidence in the Mac community

Menu bar organization tool Bartender has been around for a long time. For most of its life, it had an excellent reputation, and a responsive developer who communicated clearly with users.

That appears to have changed, recently. It all started with a quiet pair of app certificate shifts which went mostly unnoticed.

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