«ARBITRATION NOTICE. Except for certain kinds of disputes described in Section 15.2 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), you agree that disputes arising under these Terms will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration, and BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AND ZED ARE EACH WAIVING THE RIGHT TO A TRIAL BY JURY OR TO PARTICIPATE IN ANY CLASS ACTION OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. ALTERNATIVELY, CUSTOMER MAY OPT OUT OF ARBITRATION PER SECTION 17.2(a).»

It's awful.

I wonder how many licenses throughout the years people have blindly clicked agree while the dispute resolution clause read:

    “Trial by Combat”

The good thing is you can still use their software without signing in and having to agree.

Well shit, alternatives?

Here is a fork: https://gram.liten.app/

Oh, cmon, code editors are plenty. I read this in my inbox and uninstalled Zed. It's not my main editor though.

Judging from the opt out section and other parts of the ToS it seems pretty clear to me that most of the terms only apply (including the arbitration clause) to if you're using their online services. I don't get what the big hooha is about

Ha, I even started to receive spam mail in Polish (kind of "we got your webcam, give us money"). They're clearly using the collected data and are subject to the same problems.

Wait, how would that work for scammers?

Scammers can also buy aggregate information, just like advertisers

Ahaha, it could be a good premise for retelling «Romeo and Juliet» for modern IT crowd)

Looks like it does. On Android it has entry in menu "Maintaint connection to server" which creates persistent notification. Notifications worked on my un-googled phone.

This joke was already old fifteen years ago.

There are JS devs who weren't alive 15 years ago.

That's what is funny

You are not alone. My work machine is Mac and after Fedora with GNOME on personal laptop I feel constantly annoyed by basic UX stuff like window and workspace management.