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1 year agoThe API pricing was imposed to crack down on free training of LLMs with user data.
There were also other API changes like totally removing access to content marked as mature. I don’t know if subreddits can disable setting a post as mature because automods can’t detect it or see its content.
If you don’t pay for WinRAR, the only thing it will do is show up notices to buy it. This is intentional, meant to prevent piracy. So it’s more like a donation rather than a purchase.