Amazon spent 20 years being unprofitable on purpose. You think they don’t have long term strategies?

It’s the old bait and switch, they had to have this feature to build initial trust in ebooks.

Many have moved to or added the GitHub registry. It’s still a corporate controlled registry, but Microsoft are far more likely (and able) to eat the cost for developer goodwill.

I’ve got a registry running on my homelab that I haven’t quite moved fully over to yet.

They don’t lose money on users like you.

The US is 4% of the world’s population.

I’m not that conventionally attractive and Bumble worked great for me in my late 30s. People on different platforms are looking for different things. Bumble had its niche and it was very successful there, even if it was not for you like the other apps we’re not for me.

Being punished for leaving bot matches is the only issue I’d have with this.