Source: The Register: Biting the hand that feeds
OpenAI removed data export functionality from its paid Business and Enterprise tiers. Independent developers immediately built scraping tools to fill the gap—a pattern showing how platform lock-in strategies backfire when customers have high switching costs and genuine data portability needs. Enterprise customers are voting with their wallets for vendors who respect basic data ownership, forcing OpenAI to either relax restrictions or accept that its most valuable users will route around intentional friction.