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Comment by hayst4ck

I generally agree with you so I looked it up.

  In-App Purchases:

    Yearly Subscription $13.49
    Monthly Subscription $1.49
That's surprisingly modest. 3-4 years of subscription approximately being equal to a license sounds reasonable.

The real question is, is little snitch rent seeking? Given what happened after Catalina, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt at the moment. Paying for updates before receiving them definitely creates a conflict of interest.

Having looked at their website and seeing SKU-ification (Cutting a product different ways to try to hit different price points) and other business over product decisions, I am definitely feeling shaky about the future of little snitch. SKU-ification is 10x the red flag that a subscription model is.

It's worth considering that viruses now days will check and see if programs like this are running and then delete themselves rather than execute the payload.

parent hayst4ck 3 years ago

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