True, holy shit if they wouldn't completely bomb you with ads everywhere it might change something, but I accidentally used the official app on my smartphone and I can't even make out content between the ads in the UI.

Not to speak of the 50s ads for a 20s video, nah won't ever go back to the official experience.

It reminds me back when ad blockers came around, nobody cared for the one banner or some pictures on the site, but they ripped your arm out and cried when there were finally solutions for solving that harassment.

If we had actual IT giants in Europe, this would look very different.

I've seen how the car industry in Germany only got a slap on the wrist because of Dieselgate and even got the chance to send out advertisement payed by the government.

I feel like the only reason stuff like this gets pushed so hard is because we try to slow down the current IT giants until we get our shit together.

I'm glad that we do it, but i wouldn't say we are better than anyone else.

What do you mean, Microsoft support still needs it: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/microsoft-support-cracks-windows-for-customer-after-activation-fails/

Wouldn't be surprised if they made the pull request themself.

I would imagine that can lead to legal troubles endorsing r/piracy willingly?

Accepting it is one thing, but forcing it to open is entirely different.

It's not only interests of the chinese government, they HAVE to oblige legally if they are asked to. So even if the company has the best intentions, the government overrules.

And don't make that a chinese bad guy argument, as if western companies aren't doing the same, they just don't do that officially, which one is shadier is yours to decide.

All you can do as a company or anyone is to stop harvesting data and don't plant blackboxes/backdoors in customers systems

For about 5€ a month you can free yourself from these risks

Which place are you visiting where you get non-stop covid posts?

I'm enjoying ethernet on my phone too

Yeah the other user was sarcastic aswell.

A VPN from someone i've heard for the first time?

Count me in!!

Imagine fucking up that hard that pirates endorse DMCA

As someone trained in this field, not everything is a bulb or an LED which can take less power.

Where exactly you want this behavior?

Don't care, there are billions of hours lifetime saved by adblocking.

Nobody needs to defend this tech conglomerates, let them figure it out.

The problem isn't that there is malware on the site, it's linked to admins as distributors.

Good, these companies hoard data for far too long

In what world does the IT dictate something like this, have you ever worked in a company?

At that point you might as well don't comment at all

That's how you get successful, do something others don't

You poor soul, do you think they give one single fuck?

Blizzard is tone deaf, all they look at is the moneyflow

That's something you'll lose with age and some self confidence, take your time, everyone else is taking yours too.