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Ownership of open source flashcard app Anki transferred to for-profit AnkiHub
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this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2026
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Excuse my skepticism (it comes with experience), but after reading through AnkiHub's PR-speak AI slop, I doubt that a company with 40 employees that already uses a monthly subscription and AI is not going to enshittify this project. Did their team contribute anything to the OSS project while they were building a for profit company on top of it?
My guess is they'll charge for data storage in their servers. It's the lowest hanging fruit.