Yes, that’s how it works. If you do bad stuff, people leave. They are no longer around to notice if you do good stuff.

But it seems like there are other easy distros with lenient requirements that don’t try to force Snaps and ads on their users.

I will not give them the satisfaction.

But how can we milk you for subscription money that way?

It’s not even popular on Lemmy. People are fine with the anti-cheat. They draw the line at enforced third-party accounts, though, which is commendable.

Must be for ad attribution and install tracking. Only something a major portion of their users are specifically trying to avoid when they’re choosing Firefox.

I wish these shithead Repubs would panic about the First Amendment even one hundredth as hard as they panic about the Second.

This sign is a despicable lie.

MBAs love taking an existing brand and sucking whatever value they can extract. Like chupacabras but for functioning and useful products.

Anything that keeps maps in local storage so you can use GPS while offline is somewhere between very helpful and lifesaving. Sounds like Osmand is in there.

Organic Maps lets you download also. I got it specifically for backpacking because it enabled that. It certainly has been worth the $0. I should probably donate something each trip.

That kind of contribution seems like a lower level of effort than making changes to source code.

Anyone else remember when new technology used to be fun and exciting instead of miserable?

It is their own fault for poisoning the internet with their slop.

Lego is serious about those 4-99 age limits, huh?

If they aren’t cooperating with recovering access to your accounts, report them to the CFPB. They are legally required to give a real response instead of a form letter. I assume it costs them time and money, which is a side benefit.

If the federal government requires 7 years, they probably will not budge on that at all. They should have a strong incentive to not leak that data, but they don’t. That is a failing of the US government. We need a HIPAA but covering any personal data instead of only health.

How did we get here? Adtech, tracking, monetization.

Can we go back? By removing the ubiquitous affiliate marketing financial incentives, so no.

The sheets in the motel room, that’s insane. A while back I read something like a stalker caught a reflection in someone’s eye at a train station, that’s horrific enough. But I would have thought being indoors is relatively safe. It is like impossible to put out video content at all without being vulnerable.

That’s it?

How on earth are these psychos able to find streamers’ actual addresses?

That didn’t happen.

And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. <–

And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

And if it is, that’s not Microsoft’s fault.

And if it was, they didn’t mean it.

And if they did, you deserved it.