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This would only be true if it didn't take your time before asking you to pay to not waste the time that it took.

It says it’s a paid app right on the linked page.

There is a giga ton of content in the homepage. Are you really going to read it all? The main window doesn’t suggest it’s a paid app.

It doesn't mention being a paid app until after it says it a free download roughly 10k characters down the screen.

The app store identifies apps with paid features. You shouldn't be entirely surprised.

You are complaining that it can’t instantaneously perform a complete scan of your disk, and then attributing malicious intent to this lack of magic instant scanning technology.

What are we even doing here. The knee-jerk conspiratorial foolishness on this site is completely off the deep end.

No, I'm complaining that it doesn't ask me to pay before it takes my time to perform a complete scan of my disk (ideally before it even gives me a download of the app).

We both know it does so intentionally, and we also know exactly what the intent is.

Wouldn’t the ideal be that it informs you up front that it requires payment to get the benefit, but allows you to scan to estimate the benefit before deciding whether to pay (but after acknowledging that getting the benefit requires payment)?

No we don't know this. And in fact you can listen to the Accidental Tech Podcast at length to hear him thinking through the current design at length.

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