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The thing is, in real life, slippery slopes don't go on forever. They stop at some point.

1Password isn't going to sell data for completely morally neutral business reasons. They would get peanuts compared to the up to $8/month they get from each user in exchange for a legal, compliance, and security nightmare resulting in a bunch of lost customers.

It's most likely that they just want to make it easier to develop the product. That's where the slope ends.

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Agilebits at the end of the day is a company and it does things for financial reasons. Us, from the outside looking in, trying to assign a moral value to those actions won’t make sense.

They will go down that slope until going lower won’t make them any more money. Any money that they make from the sale of data will be profit on top of the 8/mo that they are currently getting.

If there are enough users, getting the legal and compliance stuff sorted might be worth it since that would be a one-off cost to create a whole new revenue stream.

Again, just making the case as to why they could do it, not why they should or will do it.

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