So the program that I use for Privacy for Beginners. (Guide that I made) and all my other projects, is now free. And also Affinity is now integrated into Canva even more.
Remember kids! If something is free YOUR THE PRODUCT! Unless it’s open source 
They also have a Canva subscription for all the Canva AI slop… yuck.
If there’s no subscription tied then I guess it’s a marketing thing until they announce the way it ties into the business model.
I hear that idea a lot that when something is free you are the product, but I don’t think that’s always true. Many times there is a free trial provided as marketing for the paid tiers, like Proton or Todoist. It’s not always an exploitative thing even though many times it can be. I am the most suspicious when there is ONLY a free option and no other clear business model unless it’s clear from the marketing that it’s like a small project or it’s FOSS.
Affinity hasn’t made me use Canva’s cloud servers for now or anything like that. I guess Affinity has clear business model like you say.
The only thing I’m REALLY concern about is Canva because they are a big company, and big companies want money at any cost. Well maybe Canva isn’t all that bad.
For now. Maybe I’m not the product.
EDIT: I don’t like how I NEED to a Canva account now.
Needing a Canva account puts you further down the sales funnel for Canvas products, and there probably is data collection they do for understanding you and how you use the product. Not the same as selling your data, but data collected nonetheless. That alone could be worth it to them.
That’s why I don’t like the Canva part because they probably collecting my data (and they probably are). I’m still worried about Canva collecting my data even if they are not selling my data. Because at any year, month, or day Canva could all the sudden sell my data to some advertising company.
Affinity hasn’t really make me use anything that has to do with Canva. Unless they are collecting data under the background without me even using the Canva AI tools.
Might be unrelated, but does anyone know what happened to the account that I had purchased Affinity on, before they released this new app? The serif.com website now redirects to the new Affinity website that does not tell me what happened to my data or my license, and it only tells me how to delete my Canva account, which is quite useless.
Thank you very much for the info.
Did not know Affinity products yet. So we are soon an Affinity product. Is heading in this direction.
If you scroll all to way to the bottom there’s a “Help” section that has an “Affinity V2 account” link, Which lets you see you license keys and still download the old versions
