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A VPN Company Canceled All Lifetime Subscriptions, Claiming It Didn’t Know About Them (www.wired.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (11 children)

I assume most companies write somewhere in their terms that "lifetime" means effectively "whenever the fuck we want".

If there is a company that uses the word lifetime properly they may be worth a mention.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)

Well, any time you buy any service from any company, you're depending on them to keep their word.

I'm not saying this is right, or ethical. But you're taking a chance they'll honor their service.

Sorry if anyone got screwed.

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[–] [email protected] 394 points 1 week ago (2 children)

VPNSecure is the company.

[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Odd how they didn't just put that in the title.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Guessing it was a force copy title for the sub and the article wanted you to click. They put it in the body of the post at least.

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[–] [email protected] 102 points 1 week ago (3 children)

This is absolutely disgusting behavior. "Cannot honor the purchases," my ass.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (6 children)

To be fair to the new owners the previous ones never mentioned the lifetime subscriptions existed and they were sinking the company. Probably the reason the original owners sold in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They also said that they were cancelling lifetime contracts that hadn't been used in 6 months. Hard to see how those could be sinking the company.

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