Does anyone have any thoughts on wheather this bill is going to effect freelancers working through Upwork or similar sites?

As for pricing, I'd like to mention that the creator of Inkdrop chose the monthly subscription model for his app and shared his reasoning behind this choice in his blog: https://blog.inkdrop.info/how-i-built-a-markdown-editor-earn...

Yeah, the article is confusing for that matter.

Actually, it has never felt natural to me to publish a Node.js package to two web sites, both Github and NPM. Moreover, when Google lands me on NPM's web site I prefer to navigate right away to Github. If this new thing from Github is going to replace NPM so that there's only one place for that matter - I would not mind.

Well, Pavel Durov once said that WhatsApp sucks. That's why Telegram was invented.

I bet this has been possible to accomplish with a custom browser extension. And also, services like Evernote or Genius might help.