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by gu009 82 days ago
> Sell it for as long as it works.

I agree with this in principle, but this seems conceptually at odds with selling lifetime licenses (which this product does). The lifetime license option reads like a statement of intention that they'll be around for a long time, but when the TOS of the underlying services come into play as they do here, offering (or buying) a lifetime license seems like a gamble.

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How about: The creator is trying to make some money and is not super concerned with the long view. For-profit activist software.
It's still questionably legal (at least here in Europe) to sell a yearly subscription for something and then have it stop working halfway through the year.

They should probably care about not getting sued so easily.

> [for the] lifetime [of the current version of the service]

>unlimited data [up to a certain limit]

> ~~no~~ gimmicks

I'm sure I'm missing some