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Starting in 2013, Adobe has been replacing its perpetually licensed products with subscription based services, examples being Adobe Creative Suite (CS) in 2013, and Adobe Lightroom 7 standalone in…
Apple is an American technology company that was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne. It is best known for its consumer electronics, software, and services. Apple's current…
Canva, the company that acquired Serif (parent company of Affinity and its respective graphic editing software) has removed the ability for users to purchase older versions of the Affinity…
Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart or CAPTCHA was invented in 2000 as a means to deter bots and spam on publicly available websites. CAPTCHA tests aim to…
CFMOTO changed the terms of service for the CFMOTO Ride mobile application by introducing a paid subscription model for its intelligent services. These changes, implemented on August 15, 2025…
COBB Tuning is an automotive engineering company based out of Austin, Texas that designs and engineers various aftermarket performance parts for motor vehicles.They were originally founded in 1999…
DAZN is a British-owned entertainment platform for sports broadcasting and streaming. The platform launched in 2015 and streams live and on-demand sport to over 200 countries worldwide. The service…
Discord is a proprietary VoIP and instant-messaging platform developed by Discord Inc. (formerly Hammer & Chisel, Inc.), co-founded by Jason Citron and Stanislav Vishnevskiy. Launched in 2015, the…
Platform decay, commonly known as Enshittification or crapification, is a practice in which companies (usually large ones) allow the quality of the products or services they provide to decline over…
Flock License Plate Readers (previously known as Flock Safety Falcon), are a network of AI-powered surveillance cameras that record vehicle data for law enforcement agencies. The system operates in…
The cheapest turnkey desktop SLS 3D printer on the market was canceled when Formlabs acquired its maker, Micronics, on July 11, 2024. The Micron printer had raised $1,357,939 from 431 backers on…
HP Inc. is an American multinational information technology company formed in 2015 as a successor to the Hewlett-Packard company founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and David Packard.
On October 21st, 2020, Mojang announced that all Minecraft Java Edition users must migrate their Mojang accounts to Microsoft accounts to retain access to the game. On December 18th, 2023, consumers…
In early 2025, some Xbox players discovered that Minecraft’s LAN multiplayer, previously available to anyone who had purchased the game, now required an active Xbox Game Pass subscription.
Minecraft Alpha was published and sold by a small developer, advocating for consumer ownership, promising Digital Rights Management (DRM)-free software free optional updates, and a free copy of the…
Netgate, officially Rubicon Communications LLC, is an American technology company based in Austin, Texas. It is the owner and developer of the pfSense firewall project and other networking products.
Nintendo Switch Online (or NSO for short), is a paid online gaming subscription service for the Nintendo Switch and Nintendo Switch 2, similar to PlayStation Network on the PlayStation consoles and…
Persona is an Identity Verification company, founded in 2018 by Rick Song and Charles Yeh. It is funded by Founders Fund which is an adventure capitalist firm co-founded by Peter Theil. From the…
Proton Mail is a privacy-focused email service based in Switzerland, which has partnered with non-Swiss content delivery networks, such as Radware. Proton Mail is part of the Proton suite of…
Rosetta Stone Inc. is a US company that develops and sells language learning products.
Rosetta Stone is bricking their legacy CD-based and downloadable software by blocking activation, despite perpetual license, to force users to buy a subscription plan.
SecuROM is a digital rights management (DRM) system developed by Sony for PC games and first released in 1998. Historically, SecuROM is well known for being the most agitating form of DRM of the…