This actually led to a really good course author having an issue with them over this. (Alan Richardson who hosted a very good technical testing course and a good selenium&#x2F;webdriver course).<p>I believe he still has those courses but he intially opted out of their discount program. A course he sold for $200 would have been sold for far less which undermined his own brand but also didn&#x27;t give him a fair shot at earning from it, especially since he was helpful in responding to any questions I had.<p>I was lucky and took the course when it was $200, it shortly after went up to $300 due to changes in revenue sharing based around coupon codes. This also meant he stopped offering for free a really helpful free course on technical testing.<p>(The source of this information is through course announcements made at the time, I can publish them in full here.)<p>This post from udemy to instructors is interesting reading: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.udemy.com&#x2F;announcement&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;blog.udemy.com&#x2F;announcement&#x2F;</a><p>One benefit of the udemy over the pluralsight model is that years later I still have access to the course and can revisit it, without paying an on-going subscription.<p>Pluralsight overall seems to have better content, at least from a software developer perspective.