Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears
Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears
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Why 'free' proprietary software will always end in tears
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This is a great post. Additionally, if the exploitation isn't occurring in a ramp up of costs to use basic functions of the service, it's definitely occurring somewhere else and likely at the expense of your privacy.
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There was an iOS app I used like this that did a great job of scanning text books.
After I used it for about 6 months this exact thing happened. Started charging fees for many different things.
Exporting images as pdf had a charge, then scanning to make the text searchable had a fee.
I just exported as jpg and used imagic and ocrmypdf to take care of this.
Then I learned that iOS has a built in scanner in the files app, so I just switched to that one.
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Yep, one free and one paid app I have used for a while recently moved previously entitled functionality behind subscription paywalls. Serves me right. Will stick to libre apps from here and suffer that way instead.
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The app was really good and I’d be willing to pay for it, but not a subscription just to use features that are already in the app.
Additionally, it’s a scanner app, who scans enough to subscribe to a scanner app but doesn’t scan enough to not just buy a scanner?
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If it is not open source, and you are not paying, someone else is and you are the product.
Bonus: You could be paying and be the product anyway.
See: Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc etc