For gog games you can check the digital signature on the installer to make sure it's legit. It should be signed by GOG.

PC Gaming Wiki have a page that's auto generated that tracks games using, and formally using Denuvo.

Not really as hiding dns alone doesn't give you a big increase in privacy. Your isp can see what sites you visit immediately after anyway.

It could be argued that sending all your dns requests to a 3rd party by default is actually a decrease in privacy.

This seems quite clever by Reddit. It looks like there's some deal that if they remove ads from their apps they get free api usage for a few months. Seems suspicous that both apps doing this have removed ads.

This will soften the blow a little for Reddit as now at least 1 decent sized 3rd party app on each platform (Android/IOS) will continue to work for a while.

A clever PR move that changes nothing.

What exactly would you gain privacy wise from a 3rd party client? All communication goes through their servers anyway. I believe even voice calls go through their server and aren't p2p.

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I've been using https://fba.ryona.agency which does the same.

To me, Reddit's policy seems to be driven as much by spite as anything else.

Yep I agree. No reason to force them to remove their own advertising.

My guess since both apps doing this model have immediately removed their own advertising is that they are exempt from the api pricing for a few months.

I can't see either dev cutting off their revenue stream (app ads) and then eating the api cost on the same day. Especially if users swarm to them as they are the last standing 3rd party app on their platform. Individuals wouldn't take on that kind of liability.

Ahh I see. That site does list both blocked by and blocked, but not simultaneously.

I'm still learning but share your concern.

I also think there's different dimensions to the growth too. A lemmy server such as programming.dev may have many communities which become popular and it's primary task is to be the home to those communities and federate that out to the wider community.

At the same time it has to pull in any random community that even a single user on that server wants to look at and store it.

The server that is home to programming discussion could buckle under the load of too many posts to /c/funny. It doesn't seem right. They are different responsiblities.

Please don’t feed them data about fediverse instances by querying new domain names.

I don't believe searching for domains will feed them data as such. You can crawl the lemmyverse starting from a few known servers. It's how awesome-lemmy-instances works.

what is exactly the purpose of knowing who is blocked by whom?

Before joining an instance it seemed useful to get an idea of their moderation policy. It just gives transparency as to that instance's policies, as well insight into how the rest of the fediverse views that instance.

I wasn't aware it was created by known bad actors and it wasn't my intention to promote them. It was just a useful tool.

This is the answer. From the devs point of view it's getting the most value out of the product they have spent years making.

For Reddit it's a good PR move.

That's because it's not public. We are just guessing.

Both devs haven't said why they are immediately removing ads from their apps.

It's just a guess that it's a condition of reddit giving them free api access for a few months.

I don't think they will be paying anything until they implement subscriptions. They are exempt for now in exchange for removing advertising from their apps.

Once they implement subscriptions then they get income to cover the cost of the api.

There's plenty listed on vndb.org with the vampire tag. There's some child tags too if you are after something more specific.

Yep you are correct. The new terms require you to earn no income to use the api for free. It's probably not some sort of deal then.

Wonder why the devs waited until the last minute to announce it. Makes sense for devs to try and ring some final value from their app.

Does anyone know how to mark a post as NSFW? I don't think this post requires it but I can't find an option set it anywhere.

Thanks, I'm pretty sure my instance has NSFW disabled at the server level so I don't see that at all.