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[โ€“] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anything that doesn't incur an ongoing cost to provide should be legally prohibited from being sold as a "subscription."

[โ€“] TheBaldness@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not everything needs a law against it. I'm just not going to buy into their fucked up system.

[โ€“] RagingNerdoholic@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Except more and more companies are hopping on this gravy train because they can get away with it. At some point (and that point may be now already, depending on the sector), it's going to be difficult-to-impossible to buy anything without this subscription bullshit.