pay back

1. (transitive) To pay (a debt or the lender) so as to provide the entire amount of money owed.
2. (figuratively) To avenge, to exact revenge.

Here I am using the 2nd meaning.

It was signed in 2024.

Well, yes. Countries had an agreement, and some of them broke it unilaterally. How Russia is to pay back for that is the open question.

“Just don’t be logged in” is not gonna be enough, if the device is the same as you normally use and you haven’t taken extra steps to make sure the device isn’t identifiable. I’d recommend doing this from a public library computer or similar public device.

They could just change the license of their codebase, if that’s what they wanted to do. No way in hell they care about users enough though, and probably most windows users still don’t care enough even about this to jump ship.