Subscription dilemmas

For many years of my journey with the internet, I used various services for free. By ‘free’, I mean there were no cash charges for access to apps, messages, services, and so on.The internet was designed in such a way that, back then, practically everything on it was simply accessible. Especially from the perspective of my country. It was only later that the first subscription models began to appear. I don’t know if that’s actually how it was, or if I’ve simply remembered it that way, but I think the first time I heard about subscription models on the Internet was in the context of access to information. I’m referring to paywalls.Later on, I came across all sorts of tools more and more regularly that were available upon payment of a monthly or annual fee.These days, we pay for more and more services online. I realise that this is simply the way things have evolved. Nothing comes for free. Every creator incurs costs and invests time in creating something, and so pays for the product…