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Can you expand on what you mean by "rent seeking" in this context?

Regarding subscription fees, there's nothing wrong with paying for software.

No, it’s a well understood concept. giyf.

I did pay for their software. Then they decided to try to exploit their position in a way favorable to them, and unfavorable to me. Nope.

Especially that one pays for a service in case of 1P.

I _bought_ 1P way before it was a service. I continued to pay for upgrades. I don't want a subscription, and I don't want to be forced into their black-box syncing. I've been migrating to the free software pass [0].

[0] https://www.passwordstore.org/

I see, I wasn't aware that they are / were doing a standalone software version too. I always knew about them as a web service.

There is no reason for it to be a web service. Why should I pay for their cloud when I already have access to storage on three clouds, two of which they used to support, but have now removed from their software, just so they can force me to pay them every month? Oh man, it makes me mad.

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