Just if you thought the current climate around selling software online was bad, just take a look at this alone, appeared today (july 2024) :

extrait : "Google Chrome will soon throw security warnings at you that you cannot ignore. (...) Whether this new barrier to downloading dangerous files will reduce the number of malicious downloads remains to be seen. It is surely adding complexity to the process and it feels strange that users have to select a reason for wanting to download the file, especially since all lead to the desired result."

extrait : "SAP 2nd quarter 2024 financial results : Software licenses revenue decreased by 28% to €0.2 billion and was down 27% at constant currencies. Cloud and software revenue
was up 10% to €7.17 billion and up 10% at constant currencies. Services revenue was up 6% to €1.11 billion and up 6% at constant
currencies. Total revenue was up 10% to €8.29 billion and up 10% at constant currencies."

Google's chrome is making it harder every year to download software from a website, arbitrarily scoring your software. And SAP, EU's largest software developer, is seeing very deep reduction of software license sales, telling software licensing vendors out there that this is probably time to consider a different career going forward.

It's all written on the wall !! Take notice !!!

And of course, none of this was supposed to happen. It's just the annoyance of a few major companies (Google and Microsoft) making it virtually impossible for a vendor to have their software download and installed by a potential customer.