On: A rant on web font licenses

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Can you think of any more egregious examples? Fonts are by far the worst in my experience.

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I mean, how about "buying" digital products that can be shut down at the whim of the distributor?

Like e-books: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48829661

Or games: https://www.wired.com/story/google-stadia-shutting-down-phil...

Or movies: https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23199861/playstation-store...

Sometimes you get refunds, sometimes you don't. Also at the whim of the distributor!

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“Skin in-app purchases” are quite popular these days.