"Maybe later", or, "Not today, Satan"

An epic set of dark patterns from 1Password:

It turns out, if you ever upgrade from 1Password 7 to 1Password 8, you can no longer use standalone or iCloud vaults. You can only use the program if you also have an...
jwz.org/b/ykFB

@jwz Their new browser extension also requires migrating standalone vaults to a 1Password account. The "classic” extension still seems to work with Firefox on Mac (for now), despite the nag dialogs.

I wonder how much the "classic" extension discontinuation is motivated by security vs. support costs vs. Manifest V2 phase-out vs. 1Password account adoption.

@bk1e @jwz If you let the extension update, they replace it with a broken version

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