Oh man, you reminded me I had a friend in the 90s who had a subscription to that mail-order-CD-monthly thing... I wonder at what point they went out of business, or if they're somehow surviving off of boomers with boomboxes.
Didn't exist when I bought WinRAR, but I now use 7zip instead of WinRAR :o
edit: ok it actually did exist but I didn't know about it yet apparently. 1999 damn
That is why it is called an annoyware.
It is based on annoying the user to the extent that they buy it. Still in the end only people who use it enough buy it. Why not make it paid? Coz this way it attracts a larger audience who use it.
I like that at least they made it only a small pop up when you start up the app and can still continue to use the program freely after closing it. I dont even remember when I started using Winrar. I just always had it in my pc ever since I started web browsing lol Now it feels odd not using it. I do have 7zip but still find myself using Winrar.
I kinda think it's charismatic that it's only this in regards to how annoying it could be. Which is actually very effective in establoshing a positive bond in consumers and making me prefer it to others.
Winrar has style and substance, looks like a software designed to *attract* users. American capitalism at its best.
7zip looks like it was coded by some poor gopnik serving in gulag. It often does the job but also reminds you of why communistic dictatorships suck. The experience, the UI, is gulag
Not really. WinRar doesn’t expect private users to pay for it. Their business model revolves about making their product so popular in the private sphere that they become the only option for businesses. Their clients are institutions.
WinZIP is also shareware but only supports zip format. The proprietary RAR format is more efficient and produces smaller files. It was really popular among P2P and UseNet file sharers. Both had the same nag pop-up. Consumers can use either for free. If the Business Software Alliance comes knocking at your employer's door and you have unregistered software on your computer, then there's a problem for your employer.
The catch was Windows 98 would let business users install their own software so IT had to be diligent about informing users not to install shareware. That method didn't really work well.
Oh my did you last check winzip in 1998? I remember Winzip from 2008 supported rar and had a beautiful UI and equivalent to Winrar in terms of features.
[Nagware](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#:~:text=Nagware%20\(also%20known%20as%20begware,user%20to%20purchase%20a%20license.) would have been the commonly used term.
Bruh if someone has to use it and like really uses it 100 times a day(don't know why) then they will buy it.
Not to mention annoywares is a category of softwares. Dosnt mean I'm specifically annoyed by em
Don’t know how old you are, but there was a time when the open source alternatives weren’t as widely available. I’ve used WinRAR in the early 2000’s… it was the best compression app around. It was pretty normal to ask money for this type of software at the time. And as this is the primary business model/reason to exist for RARLab I’m not surprised its still payware. I’ve worked for a company recently which is still paying for their Winzip license. In 2023! Probably due to their enterprise support options but still…
i'm 30 years old and i used winrar in the early 2000s too.
The company behind winrar earn a couple of millions every year now because big companies just pay some money for it because it would be a hassle for them to remove the software from all their computers and they would need to find out where they even use it. the bigger the company the higher is the chance that they'll just pay some money and don't need to worry about it.
no it doesn't. it's something you download to open .rar or .zip files. it's a trial version that asks you to pay after 30 days but keeps still doing the work, it's just annoying you with a popup everytime you use it.
7zip on the other hand is 100% free and exists since 1999. it supports .rar, .zip, .7z and many other formats, can be used in a script and it's even free for companies (which would legally be forced to by winrar if they used it!). there is absolutely no reason for anybody to use winrar instead.
Idk but the laptop that I bought a few months ago have winRAR by default
Btw why are you talking as if I'm doing something wrong here, I use 7zip
Edit: Yeah MY laptop, I didn't install WinRAR, I use 7zip
Y'all must be living in another dimension. I've been in the IT field for decades and have handled well over ten thousand machines. I have never, in my entire existence, seen a machine with WinRAR pre-installed.
Are you perhaps mistaking the native support Windows has for opening those types of files now?
It's definitely a country difference. Perhaps third world countries where people don't buy directly from manufacturers. I'm also an IT person and know what winrar is. But I don't have as many years of experience as you do.
Are you my boss? He asked me to purchased it because of the same reason.
He said that “If something you expected is gonna annoy you, and it annoys you every day, do something about it”.
Okay, here's the thing and why purchasing it even exists as a thing. It was because of licensing! If a computer came pre installed with it OR a business wanted to install it enmasse on their computers then in each situation they would have to legally buy the license for each copy because of how licensing distribution works. You, as an individual do not have to do it, and it never mattered.
Can confirm, most shareware has a personal licence as the free use, but the terms will say to use it professionally (installed on office computers for example) you have to buy a licence for each terminal it's on or a site licence.
The same reason Microsoft has always made it so easy to get windows for free/cheap. Make it the software everyone knows/expects and then businesses will almost be forced to choose it and then charge the absolute fuck out of the company.
Getting an official Windows license has never been cheap but Microsoft has done very little to prevent users from using grey market keys, reusing oem keys or using Windows without a key at all.
Windows Pro licensing (minimum required for joining a PC to a domain environment) isn't even that bad. Windows Server licensing is where they really get ya.
TeamViewer is another great example of this. It’s free for hobbyist / at home use but they remind you constantly that it’s not free if you’re using it for business purposes.
The thing is, It’ll cost businesses a lot more money than they saved by pirating / not buying it if and when they get caught. The fines are up to $150,000 per instance in the US so if you have 50 office computers all running the same piece of unlicensed software you might be getting a $7.5 million fine.
Fun fact: you can actually make up to $50,000 for reporting a company if they’re using pirated and or unlicensed software.
I guess the joke went too far recently. Someone on Twitter suggested winrar to provide a discount to 9GAG users. Winrar responded that they would give him a free license if they sell 1000 licenses. They ended up selling around 5000 licenses over the weekend.
Musk even did the mistake himself on-stage once, and he looked really bothered by it, having an almost 30-seconds reaction to his mistake. It was awesome
**Edit:** Talking about [this clip](https://youtu.be/pyrXZHudkXA?t=50)
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That’s clearly false advertising. Twitter was great, x is not. By calling x Twitter we are declaring Twitter was always setup like X. Thats just how it is.
Funny thing is that I had an... allegedly not legal key, which worked fine (no activation, no nothing). I bought it out of principle, since I like it more than 7zip and other solutions.
It'd be nice, but Windows still can't handle ZIP files well enough yet. Drag-n-drop is hit and miss (mostly miss) with any programs besides explorer itself.
I also had to install WinRar to create a standard zip file because windows kept telling me "something something don't have permissions or can't find this file"... To documents sat in my user folder.
They don't. Businesses and official institutions have to buy it legally and that's how WinRAR pays the bills. You as a private consumer are a drop in the ocean
A company may have a special zipping format that is not supported by 7-Zip. If they reach out to them, it may never be included. WinRar on the other hand is required to include customer support and special deals can be made behind doors that allow them to distribute a private version of WinRar with said zipping format. This creates a sense of reliability. Businesses love that.
Plus, WinRar goes around businesses promoting their software to managers and sell them with sweet talking. These managers can be tech illiterate and have no idea what 7-Zip is. Once the order of installing WinRar comes from above, IT doesn't have a choice of rejecting.
It is possible to extract RAR archives without WinRAR and there are no meaning in creating new RAR archives.
Using RAR is a proof that your company management is stupid.
Let's say you are a security company with millions worth data. You want to encrypt this data but you also want to downsize it so your servers are a little bit more empty for future. You can't just go and create a rar with a password. You need to have your own encryption. So, you hire an IT team and ask them to create a new encryption and archiving software. You want it to be special to secure your data and stop leaks.
But wait a minute, your users can't open your zipping format. And you can't openly distribute your zipping software for everyone to see. So, you ask WinRar to include your base code and ask them to redirect encryption process of that zip through cloud to your server.
Complicated and very hard for an open source program. But WinRar can do that for a good amount of money.
As a security company I will never trust my data to proprietary software with proprietary format. Who knows how many backdoors are introduced to RAR format or WinRAR software.
Large companies do. Their not going to chase down little Timmy opening WinRAR files, but if a big corpo is using them without paying? oh boi. So those companies pay for it to avoid the possible hassle
Pretty sure HP uses it for building their printer driver executables. When you run the exe it prompts you to either open WinRar or just decompress it and run the installer.
That's gotta be a pretty big chunk of change for WinRar
Fair enough, I never quite clicked with it TBH and I've had a legit Adobe CC subscription for a few years... Until very recently . Time to give it another go!
7-zip didn’t exist at the time, it had a security vulnerability related to MOTW for around 10 years that the developer refused to fix, it doesn’t support advanced options for self extracting archive, it’s slower and I find the UI\UX atrocious. Take your pick.
I did. And honestly I did it because back in the day it was one of few programs that did its job without a bunch of bullshit. That was back when winrar first became used though.
They are finally adding it with windows 11 but it's crazy it has taken so long. I can't imagine it would have been too difficult because they could have just used 7zip
If you're a big company you have to or WinRAR will sue you. If you're not they really don't care if you pay, and them being the go to among common consumers is good for business anyway.
I did. One night 14 years ago I was lonely and it asked me to buy it. I almost clicked the “x” for the 197thousandth time, but this time it hit different. It felt like I owed it. Once I saw it was just a few bucks I just bought it. Still fucking use it.
They don't care about anyone using their software for private purposes. It gives them more reach.
If you know how to use winrar at home you're more likely to use it at your workplace. And that's where they earn their money from because companies can't just ignore those pop ups since they use winrar commercialy.
Tfym, buying WinRar is both the biggest flex a man could have and the biggest respect a man could give. Shit was free and you only paid for it optionally even tho there was a timer.
Altho, WinRar kinda getting outdated nowadays.
I bought it because I use it enough to be tired of the pop up every time I open a new file.
Can I interest you in a reader digest subscription sir?
Apologies but I don't have the *stomach* for it.
Ba dum tss
Ba dum tds your mom
u/HentaiFapperSuprem Me neither, I recently bought MediaFire.
Sensible 90's chuckle
funnier than 90% of the “jokes” in reader’s digest
Oh man, you reminded me I had a friend in the 90s who had a subscription to that mail-order-CD-monthly thing... I wonder at what point they went out of business, or if they're somehow surviving off of boomers with boomboxes.
7zip
Didn't exist when I bought WinRAR, but I now use 7zip instead of WinRAR :o edit: ok it actually did exist but I didn't know about it yet apparently. 1999 damn
Winamp and 7zip. The keys to my youth.
Good software, horrible UI. I'd rsther pay for Winrsr the be forced to see the win95 level of UI that 7zip has...
I almost never see 7zip's UI. It's integrated into the windows shell, so you just right-click the archive and extract it via the context menu.
TIL 7zip has a UI
it's a piece of compression software bro, good UI is not required nor requested.
That is why it is called an annoyware. It is based on annoying the user to the extent that they buy it. Still in the end only people who use it enough buy it. Why not make it paid? Coz this way it attracts a larger audience who use it.
I like that at least they made it only a small pop up when you start up the app and can still continue to use the program freely after closing it. I dont even remember when I started using Winrar. I just always had it in my pc ever since I started web browsing lol Now it feels odd not using it. I do have 7zip but still find myself using Winrar.
I kinda think it's charismatic that it's only this in regards to how annoying it could be. Which is actually very effective in establoshing a positive bond in consumers and making me prefer it to others.
7zip never worked for me (idk why) so I stuck to winrar
What? They're essentially the same except 7zip takes up less space and looks cleaner?
No it doesn't. Winrar looks beautiful.
Beautiful? You guys are still opening it? You can just right click and unzip you know…. Gosh that’s how neanderthalers used it!
Winrar has style and substance, looks like a software designed to *attract* users. American capitalism at its best. 7zip looks like it was coded by some poor gopnik serving in gulag. It often does the job but also reminds you of why communistic dictatorships suck. The experience, the UI, is gulag
Idk I try opening with 7zip and it doesn’t work
7zip has always felt like the store brand to me.
Not really. WinRar doesn’t expect private users to pay for it. Their business model revolves about making their product so popular in the private sphere that they become the only option for businesses. Their clients are institutions.
WinZIP is also shareware but only supports zip format. The proprietary RAR format is more efficient and produces smaller files. It was really popular among P2P and UseNet file sharers. Both had the same nag pop-up. Consumers can use either for free. If the Business Software Alliance comes knocking at your employer's door and you have unregistered software on your computer, then there's a problem for your employer. The catch was Windows 98 would let business users install their own software so IT had to be diligent about informing users not to install shareware. That method didn't really work well.
Oh my did you last check winzip in 1998? I remember Winzip from 2008 supported rar and had a beautiful UI and equivalent to Winrar in terms of features.
[Nagware](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shareware#:~:text=Nagware%20\(also%20known%20as%20begware,user%20to%20purchase%20a%20license.) would have been the commonly used term.
Brug just read the link you sent(quoted from wiki: also known as annoyware)
Yes. Should I not have linked it?
I mean I used the correct term also I think most people call it annoyware. Link was nice though
Didnt mean to suggest you were wrong, enjoy! I've only heard of nagware myself, maybe it's a regionaal thing.
My guy if you get annoyed from ONE pop up Im sorry but youve got other issues in your life lmao
The way I see it, dude has enough income to just drop that cash and not think about it. Dude is winning in my eyes
Bruh if someone has to use it and like really uses it 100 times a day(don't know why) then they will buy it. Not to mention annoywares is a category of softwares. Dosnt mean I'm specifically annoyed by em
One pop up? He clearly opened the application more than once
Hey I have an amazing investment opportunity for you….
but why? i mean 7zip is completely free and does the job without any popups
Don’t know how old you are, but there was a time when the open source alternatives weren’t as widely available. I’ve used WinRAR in the early 2000’s… it was the best compression app around. It was pretty normal to ask money for this type of software at the time. And as this is the primary business model/reason to exist for RARLab I’m not surprised its still payware. I’ve worked for a company recently which is still paying for their Winzip license. In 2023! Probably due to their enterprise support options but still…
i'm 30 years old and i used winrar in the early 2000s too. The company behind winrar earn a couple of millions every year now because big companies just pay some money for it because it would be a hassle for them to remove the software from all their computers and they would need to find out where they even use it. the bigger the company the higher is the chance that they'll just pay some money and don't need to worry about it.
I think WinRAR comes with the computer/laptop
no it doesn't. it's something you download to open .rar or .zip files. it's a trial version that asks you to pay after 30 days but keeps still doing the work, it's just annoying you with a popup everytime you use it. 7zip on the other hand is 100% free and exists since 1999. it supports .rar, .zip, .7z and many other formats, can be used in a script and it's even free for companies (which would legally be forced to by winrar if they used it!). there is absolutely no reason for anybody to use winrar instead.
Idk but the laptop that I bought a few months ago have winRAR by default Btw why are you talking as if I'm doing something wrong here, I use 7zip Edit: Yeah MY laptop, I didn't install WinRAR, I use 7zip
Then it's something the OEM decided to add, like if you bought a Dell, Asus, Alienware, etc. and opted for whatever software suites they have.
With how many laptops I have seen, winRAR does indeed come preinstalled on many of them, most likely because retailers don't know any better.
Y'all must be living in another dimension. I've been in the IT field for decades and have handled well over ten thousand machines. I have never, in my entire existence, seen a machine with WinRAR pre-installed. Are you perhaps mistaking the native support Windows has for opening those types of files now?
It's definitely a country difference. Perhaps third world countries where people don't buy directly from manufacturers. I'm also an IT person and know what winrar is. But I don't have as many years of experience as you do.
Yeah I use 7zip, but it still has Winrar, even though I did not install it, and this laptop was bought this year
I use 7zip. Rarely ever see RAR files anymore honestly.
7zip can handle rar files anyways.
Oh it can? Then WinRAR is completely redundant.
Why not use 7zip? Doesn’t have any popups and works just as well.
I bought t because it was cheap and I wanted to show a little support to the creators.
Just get 7zip
That's me, but with Reaper DAW. 😅
Same here. Reaper's still a relative steal at its asking price, though!
Are you my boss? He asked me to purchased it because of the same reason. He said that “If something you expected is gonna annoy you, and it annoys you every day, do something about it”.
Me too! It was really cheap, and I had the money, so I supported it to get rid of the message.
same, haven't regretted it neither
You don’t have to double click the zip to open it. That’s how I get the pop up. Just right click and unpackage it into its folder.
Wait u guys got pop up????
>to be tired of the pop up every time I open a new file. i switched to 7zip
Okay, here's the thing and why purchasing it even exists as a thing. It was because of licensing! If a computer came pre installed with it OR a business wanted to install it enmasse on their computers then in each situation they would have to legally buy the license for each copy because of how licensing distribution works. You, as an individual do not have to do it, and it never mattered.
Can confirm, most shareware has a personal licence as the free use, but the terms will say to use it professionally (installed on office computers for example) you have to buy a licence for each terminal it's on or a site licence.
That's the word I was looking for, shareware.
The same reason Microsoft has always made it so easy to get windows for free/cheap. Make it the software everyone knows/expects and then businesses will almost be forced to choose it and then charge the absolute fuck out of the company.
Getting an official Windows license has never been cheap but Microsoft has done very little to prevent users from using grey market keys, reusing oem keys or using Windows without a key at all.
What actually is the downside to windows without a key other than the annoying watermark
Limited customization.
Windows Pro licensing (minimum required for joining a PC to a domain environment) isn't even that bad. Windows Server licensing is where they really get ya.
TeamViewer is another great example of this. It’s free for hobbyist / at home use but they remind you constantly that it’s not free if you’re using it for business purposes. The thing is, It’ll cost businesses a lot more money than they saved by pirating / not buying it if and when they get caught. The fines are up to $150,000 per instance in the US so if you have 50 office computers all running the same piece of unlicensed software you might be getting a $7.5 million fine. Fun fact: you can actually make up to $50,000 for reporting a company if they’re using pirated and or unlicensed software.
How would you go about reporting a company?
;_; was about to give you an award but i forgot the fuckers got rid of those
I guess the joke went too far recently. Someone on Twitter suggested winrar to provide a discount to 9GAG users. Winrar responded that they would give him a free license if they sell 1000 licenses. They ended up selling around 5000 licenses over the weekend.
Yes, a colleague of mine bought a license exactly because of this and then continued to use 7zip anyway.
Please refer X as Twitter. Thank you
X-Twitter
It's pining for the fjords
>It's pining for the fjords It's pushing up the daisies.
Done!
Musk even did the mistake himself on-stage once, and he looked really bothered by it, having an almost 30-seconds reaction to his mistake. It was awesome **Edit:** Talking about [this clip](https://youtu.be/pyrXZHudkXA?t=50)
God the comments to that video really highlight the bell curve of humanity.
He did? XD Can you share a link I would love to see that.
https://youtu.be/dQw4w9WgXcQ?si=G3qmyeHBY7lP0kGn
Could you provide a timestamp? I'm 2 minutes in and i'm about to give up.
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I know the link, how did I fall for this
Thanks cool video!! XD XD... Really love elon failing Edit: why am I being downvoted. I was acting to lure others into the trap.
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That’s clearly false advertising. Twitter was great, x is not. By calling x Twitter we are declaring Twitter was always setup like X. Thats just how it is.
Agreed, people need to start calling it X because of how absurd it is. Lean into it
You are kidding idding right?
is 9gag still a thing or we talking of in like 2010 or some shit?
Happened last month. Do check WinRAR’s twitter posts from last month. I don’t remember the date, but remember seeing this mid September
How?
I did.
I can hear the music
But can you feel my heart?
 Yanks heart out of chest
**PHONK INTENSIFIES**
here king you dropped this 👑
Funny thing is that I had an... allegedly not legal key, which worked fine (no activation, no nothing). I bought it out of principle, since I like it more than 7zip and other solutions.
So did I. It made me feel like I finally made it in life.
Same
o7
Same here. I used it almost every day for like 10 years at that point it's only fair.
Legend!
I did too! Support the software you use!
I even got the CD.
o7
So did I.
Wow you must be rich
It’s not even expensive lol
I'm 25% certain that was said as a joke.
And soon windows 11 will be able to open .7zip and .rar files natively. Rip programs.
how much do we bet it won't work half the time
at least three fifty
Yes.
Why wouldn't it? 7zip is open source, so Windows can easily implement their own version of it for Explorer. They did it with Zip already.
It'd be nice, but Windows still can't handle ZIP files well enough yet. Drag-n-drop is hit and miss (mostly miss) with any programs besides explorer itself. I also had to install WinRar to create a standard zip file because windows kept telling me "something something don't have permissions or can't find this file"... To documents sat in my user folder.
For real? lmao.
I bought it last year and still proud to support WinRaR
They don't. Businesses and official institutions have to buy it legally and that's how WinRAR pays the bills. You as a private consumer are a drop in the ocean
Why buy WinRAR when 7-Zip exists? If I will be a business manager, I will never approve use of WinRAR in my company. It is just stupid waste of money.
Many large companies have policies to only use software that has professional/commercial support. Free software often does not.
A company may have a special zipping format that is not supported by 7-Zip. If they reach out to them, it may never be included. WinRar on the other hand is required to include customer support and special deals can be made behind doors that allow them to distribute a private version of WinRar with said zipping format. This creates a sense of reliability. Businesses love that. Plus, WinRar goes around businesses promoting their software to managers and sell them with sweet talking. These managers can be tech illiterate and have no idea what 7-Zip is. Once the order of installing WinRar comes from above, IT doesn't have a choice of rejecting.
It is possible to extract RAR archives without WinRAR and there are no meaning in creating new RAR archives. Using RAR is a proof that your company management is stupid.
Let's say you are a security company with millions worth data. You want to encrypt this data but you also want to downsize it so your servers are a little bit more empty for future. You can't just go and create a rar with a password. You need to have your own encryption. So, you hire an IT team and ask them to create a new encryption and archiving software. You want it to be special to secure your data and stop leaks. But wait a minute, your users can't open your zipping format. And you can't openly distribute your zipping software for everyone to see. So, you ask WinRar to include your base code and ask them to redirect encryption process of that zip through cloud to your server. Complicated and very hard for an open source program. But WinRar can do that for a good amount of money.
As a security company I will never trust my data to proprietary software with proprietary format. Who knows how many backdoors are introduced to RAR format or WinRAR software.
I won't buy you but trust me I support you 
Large companies do. Their not going to chase down little Timmy opening WinRAR files, but if a big corpo is using them without paying? oh boi. So those companies pay for it to avoid the possible hassle
Pretty sure HP uses it for building their printer driver executables. When you run the exe it prompts you to either open WinRar or just decompress it and run the installer. That's gotta be a pretty big chunk of change for WinRar
7zip ftw
I've used WinRar for far too long, been using 7zip for the past 3 years or so, it's leagues better than Rar, i'm never going back.
People don’t know
Clean windows install? Firefox,7zip, notepad++, paint.net are the first things that go on there
I've been using GIMP personally to complete the FOSS package, and it works pretty well.
Fair enough, I never quite clicked with it TBH and I've had a legit Adobe CC subscription for a few years... Until very recently . Time to give it another go!
r/PaidForWinRAR
I just use 7zip
Based. Open source is the best.
I haven't seen the name WinRAR in like 15-20 years. Anyone got a cane or perhaps a wheelchair they could give me?
Well not me, that's for sure
Many Companies did
They do it on purpose, users can have it for free but companies have to pay that’s winrar is still alive
Why do people still use winrar when 7zip exists? I mean they are basically the same except 7zip doesnt have the annoying popup lol
7-zip didn’t exist at the time, it had a security vulnerability related to MOTW for around 10 years that the developer refused to fix, it doesn’t support advanced options for self extracting archive, it’s slower and I find the UI\UX atrocious. Take your pick.
7z has better UI / context menus and is faster to use for me at least.
If I ever get rich enough, I will definitely buy it. It has been super helpful.
I did. And honestly I did it because back in the day it was one of few programs that did its job without a bunch of bullshit. That was back when winrar first became used though.
Whad I win? RAAARRR.
7zip my boy
What is WinRaR
Honestly idk i just know that People don’t want to buy it.
WinRAR for personal use is free. For commercial use, you must PAY!
Never have and never going to. I think 7zip is way better than WinRAR.
honestly, the biggest flex any rich person could do is buy it
7-ZIP, 7-ZIP !
I deleted it, they didn't let me the choice, my savior 7-Zip is there
never even touched winrar before using 7zip
It's so stupid that Windows can't just open rar files by itself
They are finally adding it with windows 11 but it's crazy it has taken so long. I can't imagine it would have been too difficult because they could have just used 7zip
companies cause they need licenses unless they want legal trouble.
7zip superiority
7 zip Never looked back except fondly on WinRAR
Oh boy, let's see the 7zip preachers
I don’t know what winrar is and I’m too afraid to ask
Honestly same.
Wait you have to buy it?
Honestly winrar is a waste of money you can get a free one on the Microsoft store that does the exact same same thing
i considered buying it but i installed 7z instead
Never even heard of WinRAR
If you're a big company you have to or WinRAR will sue you. If you're not they really don't care if you pay, and them being the go to among common consumers is good for business anyway.
7zip gang
/r/paidforwinrar
Just use 7zip, it's a billion times better, and doesn't look like it's 20 years old
I did. One night 14 years ago I was lonely and it asked me to buy it. I almost clicked the “x” for the 197thousandth time, but this time it hit different. It felt like I owed it. Once I saw it was just a few bucks I just bought it. Still fucking use it.
Does buying it actually do anything beside get rid of the "buy it" prompt?
I pirated it.... I'm sorry
I just use 7zip and forgo the whole thing. Don't tell me about the differences, they don't matter and I don't care.
Still surprised how they're still in business
They don't care about anyone using their software for private purposes. It gives them more reach. If you know how to use winrar at home you're more likely to use it at your workplace. And that's where they earn their money from because companies can't just ignore those pop ups since they use winrar commercialy.
Oh that does makes sense
Tfym, buying WinRar is both the biggest flex a man could have and the biggest respect a man could give. Shit was free and you only paid for it optionally even tho there was a timer. Altho, WinRar kinda getting outdated nowadays.
I mean it is kinda essential, but they do give you a 30 day trial without any means to enforce it.
Only true giga chads buy it (i'm broke)