Of course they did not use it. Tax software companies went out of their way to make sure this would be the case. After all their shenanigans, they might as well have put Free File option in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.

Related: TurboTax Deliberately Hid Its Free File Page From Search Engines

https://www.propublica.org/article/turbotax-deliberately-hid...

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19758126