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I’m curious if you (or anyone else) know of any other services that are paid-only in a traditionally free/freemium product space.

Perhaps for news, or video content, or music, or something else. What else do you use today for free that often feels like a Faustian bargain?

As a random aside, If Google released a paid version of their search engine, would you switch back?

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Jetbrains.

Well, up until recently. Now I'm paying hundreds of dollars for a cheap copy of VSCode and I'm really not sure why I shouldn't just use the free version.

Because of the new ui? Seriously it's terrible, but the classic ui is still benevolently available as a plugin. Don't know for how long.

>As a random aside, If Google released a paid version of their search engine, would you switch back?

Not if Google continue to make the bulk of their money from ads.

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