plot twist: one time purchase of a year and a half of use before “we are ending support for the product which inexplicably means your license somehow no longer works”
I’ve switched everything I can away from subscriptions, even swapping to pre-paid phone plan. If I could do the same with my Internet or insurance, I absolutely would.
I like not having small-ish amounts of money come out every month. It’s easier to plan for a big chunk once a year. It’s also much easier to see tiny customer-fucking price increases because they represent a greater difference in annual payment over monthly.
Yearly subscriptions are still subscriptions, you know?
Not really an option to not have a phone line of some sort and insurance, you know?
At least it’s pre-paid and I can bounce whenever I want. Don’t even have to cancel, just port my number.
Just gonna drop this here: https://buyoncesoftware.com/
List of buy-once alternatives to subscription software.
Oh no! They have a paid listing option now. Enshittification knows no bounds… 😢
I wonder if they can pay once for it or if it’s subscription
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From the looks of the site, it seems “buy once” refers more to paying to having your software listed .
Depends on what it is I’m purchasing and the cost of the subscription vs the cost of a one time purchase. Also, depends on if it’s a true one time purchase or something along the lines of those “lifetime subscription” one time charges that never seem to actually last z lifetime.
