I’ve switched everything I can away from subscriptions, even swapping to pre-paid phone plan. If I could do the same with my Internet or insurance, I absolutely would.
I like not having small-ish amounts of money come out every month. It’s easier to plan for a big chunk once a year. It’s also much easier to see tiny customer-fucking price increases because they represent a greater difference in annual payment over monthly.
Yearly subscriptions are still subscriptions, you know?
plot twist: one time purchase of a year and a half of use before “we are ending support for the product which inexplicably means your license somehow no longer works”
Just gonna drop this here: https://buyoncesoftware.com/
List of buy-once alternatives to subscription software.
From the looks of the site, it seems “buy once” refers more to paying to having your software listed .
They should audit that site. Adobe is on the front page and there are a few programs that are annual subs, like horse browser. But I’m book marking it anyway because there is some good stuff there despite that.
Oh no! They have a paid listing option now. Enshittification knows no bounds… 😢
Depends on what it is I’m purchasing and the cost of the subscription vs the cost of a one time purchase. Also, depends on if it’s a true one time purchase or something along the lines of those “lifetime subscription” one time charges that never seem to actually last z lifetime.
I prefer keeping as much of my income available as possible and then decide when and where to spend it, rather than having most of it tied up in monthly rates. More liquidity=more flexibility
The day has not come that I’ve found a subscription worth the monthly rate. A little off topic, but I even pay a bit more for my Internet bill so I can dump its ass on a whim if I like, and I use that daily (hourly). Canada has SUPER predatory telecoms, keeps them honest
I make made my telecom choices specifically avoiding the big three and their subsidiaries. Has served me well so far.
Yeah I was with Shaw before they got monopolized now I’m trying to eek my way out of Rogers (they’ve been kindly upping my bill monthly the last 3 months)
The best thing that ever happened to me cell phone-wise was Shaw being forced to sell Freedom. I’ve been with Freedom since they were Wind, and the only good thing that the Shaw ownership ever did was leave existing contract prices alone. I would have been extremely unhappy if Rogers had gotten their hands in Freedom.
