The entire point of "everything being a subscription" is a marketing ploy.
(Also revenue. "I forgot to cancel the subscription" pays the bills like no other, see Comcast's revenue.")
Subscriptions have to be renewed, subscriptions send billing emails.
All of these things create more "daily active impressions." And in the attention economy, the more daily active impressions you have, the more your net promoter score rises (any publicity is good publicity).
The reason it's tiring is that humans have FINITE ATTENTION.
We're living in "the attention economy." Subscriptions are simply the latest strategy to monetize our attention.
The cure is to cleanse your email inbox of all "SaaS" emails like it's a Covid outbreak. And to be genuinely distrustful of all subscription products.
I ended up abandoning my email inbox, I don't read it. It's a dumpster that I occasionally go fishing in when I need something specific.
Subscriptions are exhausting, I am slowly moving more and more stuff to self hosting. I bought an office desktop with 16G of ram for it. I don't mind paying for quality software, I a just feel done with subscriptions and how it results in the UI of the software constantly changing so that you have to relearn how to do basic things all the time.
(Also revenue. "I forgot to cancel the subscription" pays the bills like no other, see Comcast's revenue.")
Subscriptions have to be renewed, subscriptions send billing emails.
All of these things create more "daily active impressions." And in the attention economy, the more daily active impressions you have, the more your net promoter score rises (any publicity is good publicity).
The reason it's tiring is that humans have FINITE ATTENTION.
We're living in "the attention economy." Subscriptions are simply the latest strategy to monetize our attention.
The cure is to cleanse your email inbox of all "SaaS" emails like it's a Covid outbreak. And to be genuinely distrustful of all subscription products.