That 3-step pattern is common, but it's not much better for paid products nowadays (e.g., the Garmin/Navionics purchase): 1. Pay for lifetime license for offli

That 3-step pattern is common, but it's not much better for paid products nowadays (e.g., the Garmin/Navionics purchase): 1. Pay for lifetime license for offline product. 2. "Offline" product has a backdoor and is remotely updated. 3. Continued use requires a subscription. No features were added. Some were removed. 4. PR spins this as for your own benefit. 5. Parent company gives all the liabilities away to a subsidiary in another country who can go bankrupt to make legal recourse more difficult. And a million other variations. My go-to strategy has been reducing the surface are of entities who could exert influence if (when) they turned evil, not using some otherwise excellent products as one particular sub-strategy, but that only goes so far. What do y'all do?