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by flakron 982 days ago
Because they are trying to monetize that later?
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that is exactly what’s going to happen.

the ones that aren’t Silicon Valley businesses currently in their “growth” phase will openly let you save off your entire collection of queries as plain text, and will ideally handle storage of this in git for you. After “growth” is “capture” where they turn free users into paid ones.

The number of people who get foaming-at-the-mouth angry over Microsoft because they did this in the 1990s and who also ignore the hundreds of companies doing this as part of the startup playbook is staggering.